दीप dīp

दीप dīpa di:p (nm) an earthen lamp; the most eminent person of a family or clan; ~गृह a light-house; ~दान offering of a lamp to a deity for adoration; ~माला/मालिका a row of lamps; the दिवाली festival; ~वर्ति/वर्तिका the wick of a lamp; ~शिखा the flame of a lamp; ~स्तंभ a lamp-post; —से दीप जले one lamp kindles another.

S ديپ दीप dīpa, vulg. dīp , s.m. A light, lamp: — dīpālī (˚pa+ālī), s.f. = diwālī, q.v.: — dīp-br̤iksh. s.m. = dīp-vr̤iksh, q.v.: — dīp-pushp, s.m. 'Lamp-flowerʼ, the plant Michelia champaka (syn. ćampā): — dīp-dān, s.m. A ceremony observed for ten days after the decease of a relative (it consists in the suspending of a lamp on a pīpal or some other tree for the purpose of lighting the departed spirit on the road to Yam-puri); — the offering a lamp to an idol; — land assigned to Brāhmans on the banks of rivers to deprecate river-encroachment: — dīp-dhvaj, s.m. 'Lamp-sign'; lamp-black, &c. ( = dīp-kiṭṭ): — dīp-sikhā, s.f. The flame of a lamp or candle: — dīp-kiṭṭ, s.m. Lamp-black, the condensed smoke or soot of a lamp; snuff of a candle: — dīp-kūpī or dīp-khorī, s.f. Wick of a lamp: — dīp-mālā or dīp-mālikā, s.f. A row of lamps, an illumination (see diwālī): — dīp-vr̤iksh, s.m. 'Lamp-tree'; the stand or stem of a lamp, candlestick.