वायु

From Sanskrit वायु (vāyú), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwaHyúš, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁yu- (“wind, air”), ultimately from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.juː/

वायु • (vāyu) f (Urdu spelling وایو‎)

1. (formal) air

   Synonyms: हवा (havā), समीर (samīr)

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.jú/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑː.ju/

From the root वै (vai).

वायु • (vāyú)

1. tired, languid

From the root वी (vī).

वायु • (vāyú)

1. desirous, covetous, greedy (for food, applied to calves)
2. desirable, desired by the appetite

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *HwaHyúṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwaHyúš, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁yús (“wind, air”), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognate with Lithuanian vejas, Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬎‎ (vaiiu).

वायु • (vāyú) m

1. wind
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.45.32a

     यस्य वायोरिव दरवद भद्रा रातिः सहस्रिणी ।
     सद्यो दानाय मंहते ॥

     yasya vāyoriva daravada bhadrā rātiḥ sahasriṇī .
     sadyo dānāya maṃhate .

     He whose good bounty, thousandfold, swift as the rushing of the wind,
     Suddenly offers as a gift.

2. air (as one of the 5 elements)
3. the god of the wind: Vayu
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 7.91.3c

     पीवोन्नान रयिव्र्धः सुमेधाः शवेतः सिषक्ति नियुतामभिश्रीः ।
     ते वायवे समनसो वि तस्थुर्विश्वेन नरः सवपत्यानि चक्रुः ॥

     pīvonnāna rayivrdhaḥ sumedhāḥ śavetaḥ siṣakti niyutāmabhiśrīḥ .
     te vāyave samanaso vi tasthurviśvena naraḥ savapatyāni cakruḥ .

     Wise, bright, arranger of his teams, he. seeketh men with rich food whose treasures are abundant.
     They have arranged them of one mind with Vāyu: the men have wrought all noble operations.

4. breathing, breath
5. the wind of the body, a vital air
6. (medicine) the windy humour or any morbid affection of it
7. the wind as a kind of demon producing madness
8. (astronomy) name of the fourth muhurta
9. a mystical name of the letter ya
10. name of Vasu
11. name of Daitya
12. name of a Marut
13. (in the plural) the Maruts

• पवन (pávana)
• वात (vā́ta)

• Helu: [Term?]
  • Dhivehi: ވައި‎ (vai)
• → Bengali: বায়ু (bayu)
• → Hindi: वायु (vāyu)
• → Malay: bayu / بايو‎ (bayu)
• → Telugu: వాయువు (vāyuvu)
• → Urdu: وایو‎ (vāyu)

• “वायु” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, OCLC 186102264, page 485.
• Monier Williams (1899), “वायु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0942.
• Arthur A. Macdonell, A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, 1893, page 277
• Horace Hayman Wilson, A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed., Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 752