वा I. 2. P. (वाति, वात or वान)
1 To blow; वाता वाता दिशि दिशि न वा सप्तधा सप्तभिन्नाः Ve. 3. 6; दिशः प्रसेदु- र्मरुतो ववुः सुखाः R. 3. 14; Me. 42; Bk. 7. 1, 8, 61.
2 To go, move.
3 To strike, hurt, injure. −Caus. (वापयति-ते)
1 To cause to blow.
2 (वाजयति-ते) To shake. −WITH आ to blow; बद्धां बद्धां भित्तिशंकाममुष्मि- न्नावानावान्मातरिश्वा निहंति Ki. 5. 36; Bk. 14. 97. −प्र, −वि to blow; वायु- र्विवाति हृदयानि हरन्नराणां Rs. 6. 23. −II. 4. P. (वायति)
1 To be dried up, to dry.
2 To be extinguished. −III. 10 U. (वापयति-ते)
1 To go, move.
2 To be happy.
3 To worship, reverence.
वा ind.
1 As an alternative conjunction it means ‘or’; but its position is different in Sanskrit, being used either with each word or assertion or only with the last, but it is never used at the beginning of a clause; cf. च.
2 It has also the following senses:-(a) and, as well as, also; वायुर्वा दहनो वा G. M.; अस्ति ते माता स्मरसि वा तातं U. 4. (b) like, as; जातां मन्ये तुहिनमथितां पद्मि- निं वान्यरूपां Me. 83; मणी वोष्ट्रस्य लं- बेते Sk.; हृष्टो गर्जति चातिदर्पितबलो दुर्वोधनो वा शिखी Mk. 5. 6; स्नानीय- वस्त्रक्रियया पत्रोर्णं वोपयुज्यते M. 5. 12; Śi. 3. 63, 4. 35, 7. 64; Ki. 3. 13. (c) optionally; (in this sense mostly in grammatical rules, as of Pāṇini); दोषो णौ वा चित्तविरागे P. VI. 4. 99. 91. (d) Possibility; (in this sense वा is usually added to the interrogative pronoun and its derivatives like इव or नाम), and may be translated by ‘possibly’, ‘I should like to know’; कस्य वान्यस्य वचसि मया स्थातव्यं K.; परिवर्तिनि संसारे मृतः को वा न जायते Pt. 1. 27. (e) Sometimes used merely as an expletive. (f) Indeed, truly. (g) Only.
3 When repeated वा has the sense of ‘eitheror,’ ‘whether-or’; सा वा शंभोस्तदीया वा मूर्तिर्जलमयी मम Ku. 2. 60; तत्र प- रिश्रमानुरोधाद्वा उत्तामकथावस्तुगौरवाद्वा नवनाटकदर्शनकुतूहलाद्वा भवद्धिरवधानं दी- यमानं प्रार्थये V. 1. (अथवा or, or rather, or else; see under अथ; न वा not, neither, nor; यदि वा or if; यद्वा or, or else; किं वा whether &c.).