purohit
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| Meaning: | “minister, priest” |
| Word class: | noun |
| Language: | TA |
| Equivalent in TB: | purohite |
| Equivalent in other languages: | Skt. purohita- |
| Lexeme variants: | purohit |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | nominative |
| Gender: | masculine |
Paradigm
| sg | pl | du | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nom | purohit, puruhit | purohitāñ | |
| voc | |||
| acc | purohitās | ||
| gen | purohitāśśi | ||
| loc | |||
| comit | purohitāsaśśäl | ||
| inst | |||
| abl | |||
| perl | |||
| all | purohitānac | ||
| caus |
Lexeme family
- purohit “minister, priest”
m
sg pl nom purohit, puruhit purohitāñ acc purohitās gen purohitāśśi comit purohitāsaśśäl all purohitānac - brāhma-purohituneṣi “"dignitatis sacerdotis (dicti) brāhmaṇa" (Poucha)”
sg.m gen brāhma-purohituneṣināp
- brāhma-purohituneṣi “"dignitatis sacerdotis (dicti) brāhmaṇa" (Poucha)”
Occurrences
purohit
| 1 | A 257 a8 | tmäṣ meträkyāp pācar brahmāyu | purohit | • triwamāṃ oki su(kyo) |
| 2 | A 260 a2 | ॥ täm kaklyuṣuräṣ brahmāyu | purohit | pär(ma)ṅk kärṣto a3 2σ |
| 3 | A 273 b3 | akṣar kälytär ॥ tmäṣ | purohi(t) | (bodhisatvānac) (träṅkä)ṣ k(ātäk) /// |
| 4 | A 273 b6 | ॥ täm kaklyuṣuräṣ brahmāyu | purohit | tsopatsäṃ ynāñmub7(neyo) /// (kākropu)räṣ |
| 5 | A 274 a4 | ku a4 /// tsu | purohit | träṅkäṣ ote täpreṃ praṣtā |
| 6 | A 274 a5 | ॥ smimāṃ akmalyo brahmāyu | purohit | brā – a6 /// |
| 7 | A 274 b4 | pärkatär ॥ tmäṣ brahmāyu | purohit | okät tmāṃ b5 /// |
| 8 | A 280 b4 | /// (dakṣinakä)śśi dakṣinak purohitāśśi | purohit | lāñcäśśi (wäl) /// b5 |
| 9 | A 286 a6 | – täm kaklyuṣurä(ṣ) (bra)hmāyu | purohit | śo – /// b2 |
| 10 | A 299 b8 | /// māṃ akmalyo brahmāyu | puro(hit) | (träṅkä)ṣ peṃ klyomiṃ mänt |
| 11 | A 317 b3 | ॥ tmäṣ kumnäṣ widyādharakirti | purohit | pälsk· /// b4 träṅkäṣ |
| 12 | THT 2215 a2 | purohi /// a2 /// | purohit | /// a3 /// – – – |
