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bhāsitā
bhāsita
nt nom pl of bhāsita (noun); nt instr sg of bhāsita (noun); nt abl sg of bhāsita (noun); nt voc sg of bhāsita (noun); …
- bhāsita (nt): saying; speech; statement; utterance; talk; words; lit. what was said
- bhāsita (pp): said; spoken; recited (by)
- bhāsita (nt): (gram) ?? word
- bhāsita (nt): speaking; talking; saying; lit. spoken
- bhāsitar (masc): speaker; who talks (about)
Built from
- bhās — root · speak; shine
The root bhās denotes both utterance and luminosity; the spatial imagery of shining (things that stand out) underlies the sense of speaking (words that stand out). Cognate with Sanskrit bhāṣ-, and distantly with Greek phasis 'speech' (from the root *bha- 'shine, appear').
- ita — ending · past participle
The -ita ending marks a completed action (past participle). Here it creates the sense 'that which was spoken', which nominalizes into 'speech, statement, utterance'.
Etymology. From √bhās 'to speak, shine' (Sanskrit bhāṣ-, related to English 'base' in the sense of utterance). The past participle bhāsita 'said, spoken' is passival from this root, cognate with Sanskrit bhāṣita. The noun sense 'speech, statement' derives from this participle.