Sanskrit

Verb

खादति • ‎(khā́dati)

1. to chew, bite, eat, devour, feed, prey upon (RV. I, 64, 7, AV., VS. etc.)
2. to hurt (Suśr.)
3. to ruin (Subh.)
4. (causative) to cause to be eaten or devoured by (+ instrumental; compare Pāṇ. 1-4, 52 Vārtt. 5, Gaut., Mn., Hcat.)
5. (desiderative) to desire to eat (MBh. VII, 205 (v.l.), HYog. III, 18.)

Descendants

• Bengali: খাওয়া ‎(khā'ōẏā)
• Gujarati: ખાવું ‎(khāvũ)
• Hindi: खाना ‎(khānā)
  • Domaaki: [script needed] ‎(khānā)
• Kashmiri: [script needed] ‎(khāṇo)
• Marwari: खाबो ‎(khābo)
• Nepali: खानु ‎(khānu)
• Oriya: ଖାଇବା ‎(khāibā)
• Pali: khādati
• Punjabi: ਖਾਣਾ ‎(khāñā)

External links

• partial conjugation

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0339