Sanskrit

Noun

यजुस् • ‎(yájus) n

1. religious reverence, veneration, worship, sacrifice
2. a sacrificial prayer or formula (technical term for particular mantras muttered in a peculiar manner at a sacrifice; they were properly in prose and distinguished from the ऋच् ‎(ṛc) and सामन् ‎(sāman))
3. name of the Yajurveda (also in plural)
4. name a particular sacrificial text

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 0839