napāt | नपात् | napAt

na/pāt | न/पात् |, na/ptf | न/प्त्फ़् |, m. (the former stem only in the strong cases and earlier lang.; the latter in Class., but acc. naptāram | नप्तारम् | appears in TS. & AitBr.) descendant, offspring, son (in this meaning esp. in RV., e.g. apāṃ n˚ | अपां न्˚ |, ūrjo n˚ | ऊर्जो न्˚ |, divo n˚ | दिवो न्˚ |, vimuco n˚ | विमुचो न्˚ | &c.); grandson (in later lang. restricted to this sense), RV. &c. &c.; N. of one of the Viśve devās, MBh. xiii, 4362; path of the gods (?), Mahīdh. on VS. xix, 56; granddaughter (?), Uṇ. ii, 96, Sch.;
na/pāt | न/पात् |, na/ptf | न/प्त्फ़् |, [Prob. neither = na + pat | न + पत् | (Uṇ. ii, 96) nor na + pāt | न + पात् | (Pāṇ. vi, 3, 75), and of very questionable connection with √ naB | नB |, or nah | नह् |; cf. Zd. napāt, naptar; Gk. νέποδες, ἀνεψιός; Lat. nepōt-em; Angl.Sax. nefa; HGerm. nëvo, nëve, Neffe.]

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