रूप f. n. (perhaps connected with
वर्प,
वर्पस्;
ifc. f.(आ), rarely (
ई)) any outward appearance or phenomenon or colour (often
pl. ), form, shape, figure,
[RV.] &c. &c. (
रूपेणifc. in the form of
;
रूपम्-√ कृ or √
भू, to assume a form; often
ifc. = ‘having the form or appearance or colour of’, ‘formed or composed of’, ‘consisting of’, ‘like to’; sometimes used after an
adj. or
p.p. to emphasize its meaning or almost redundantly
cf. घोर-र्°; or connected with a verb
e.g. पचति-रूपम्, he cooks very well
cf. [Pāṇ. 8-1, 57] )
dreamy or phantom shapes (
pl. ),
[VS.] ;
[ŚBr.] handsome form, loveliness, grace, beauty, splendour,
[RV.] &c. &c.
nature, character, peculiarity, feature, mark, sign, symptom,
[VS.] &c. &c.
likeness, image, reflection,
[Mn.] ;
[Kathās.] circumstances (
opp. to ‘time’ and ‘place’),
[Mn. viii, 45] sort, kind,
[R.] ;
[Suśr.] mode, manner, way,
[Kap.] (ifc.) trace of
[R.] a single specimen or exemplar (and therefore a term for the number ‘one’),
[VarBṛS.] ;
[Gaṇit.] a
partic. coin (
prob. a rupee),
[VarBṛS.] a show, play, drama,
[Daśar.] (in
alg. ) the arithmetical unit
(
pl. ) integer number
रू known or absolute number, a known quantity as having specific form (and expressed by
i.e. first syllable of
रूप),
[IW. 182] (in gram.) any form of a noun or verb (as inflected by declension or conjugation),
[Pāṇ. 1-1, 68 &c.] (in
phil. ) the quality of colour (one of the 17 or 24
गुणs of the
वैशेषिकs),
[IW. 68] (with
Buddhists) material form
i.e. the organized body (as one of the 5 constituent elements or
स्कन्धस्),
[Dharmas. 22] ;
[MWB. 109] गर्भे (in
dram. ) a reflection or remark made under
partic. circumstances when the action is at its height (),
[Bhar.] ;
[Daśar.] &c.
(only
[L.] ) cattle
a beast
a sound, word
ग्रन्थावृत्ति rereading a book (= )
रूप m. m. a word of unknown meaning,
[AV. xviii, 3, 40] (
pl. )
N. of a people,
[MBh.] रूप n. m. or
n.N. of a place (
v.l. रूम),
[Cat.]