vāc | वाच् | vAc
vā/c | वा/च् | f. (fr. √ vac | वच् |) speech, voice, talk, language (also of animals), sound (also of inanimate objects as of the stones used for pressing, of a drum &c.), RV. &c. &c. (vācam-√ f | वाचम्-√ फ़् |, īr | ईर् |, or iś | इश् |, to raise the voice, utter a sound, cry, call)
a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration, Mn.; MBh. &c. (vācaṃ-√ vad | वाचं-√ वद् |, to speak words; vācaṃ vyā-√ hf | वाचं व्या-√ ह्फ़् |, to utter words; vācaṃ-√ dā | वाचं-√ दा | with dat., to address words to; vācā satyaṃ-√ kf | वाचा सत्यं-√ क्फ़् |, to promise verbally in marriage, plight troth)
Speech personified (in various manners or forms, e.g. as Vāc Āmbhṛṇī in RV. x, 125; as the voice of the middle sphere in Naigh. & Nir.; in the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajā-pati and married to him; in other places she is called the mother of the Vedas and wife of Indra; in VP. she is the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa; but most frequently she is identified with Bhāratī or Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech; vācaḥ sāma | वाचः साम | and vāco vratam | वाचो व्रतम् | N. of Sāmans, ĀrṣBr.; vācaḥ stomaḥ | वाचः स्तोमः |, a partic. Ekāha, ŚrS.)
a word, saying, phrase, sentence, statement, asseveration, Mn.; MBh. &c. (vācaṃ-√ vad | वाचं-√ वद् |, to speak words; vācaṃ vyā-√ hf | वाचं व्या-√ ह्फ़् |, to utter words; vācaṃ-√ dā | वाचं-√ दा | with dat., to address words to; vācā satyaṃ-√ kf | वाचा सत्यं-√ क्फ़् |, to promise verbally in marriage, plight troth)
Speech personified (in various manners or forms, e.g. as Vāc Āmbhṛṇī in RV. x, 125; as the voice of the middle sphere in Naigh. & Nir.; in the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajā-pati and married to him; in other places she is called the mother of the Vedas and wife of Indra; in VP. she is the daughter of Dakṣa and wife of Kaśyapa; but most frequently she is identified with Bhāratī or Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech; vācaḥ sāma | वाचः साम | and vāco vratam | वाचो व्रतम् | N. of Sāmans, ĀrṣBr.; vācaḥ stomaḥ | वाचः स्तोमः |, a partic. Ekāha, ŚrS.)