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शब्द śabd, vulg. sabd, and H. शबद śabad, sabad, s.m. Sound, noise; voice; grammar; a word; a name, term; (in Gram.) a declinable word (as a noun, pronoun, etc.) without its termination;—verbal communication; (among Nānak-panthīs), a song, a hymu:—śabdārth (˚da+ar˚), s.m. The sense or meaning of a word; the literal meaning or acceptation:—śabd-ā-śabd, adv. Word for word, verbatim:—śabdākar, s.f.=śabd-yoni, q.v.:—śabd-brahm, s.m. Holy Writ, a Veda:—śabd-bhedī, s.m. lit.'Sound-piercer'; an epithet of Arjun;—a particular fabulous arrow (which pierces an object the sound of which only is heard;—cf. śabd-vedhī):—śabd-bednī, s.m.=śabd-vedhī, q.v.:—śabd-ćor, s.m. A plagiarist:—śabd-ćorī, s.f. Plagiarism:—śabdsādhan, s.m. Etymology:—śabd-śāstr, s.m. 'The science of words,' rules of grammar; the science of grammatical inflexion, etymology; grammar; philology:—śabd-kār, adj. Making noise or sound, sounding, sonorous:—śabd karnā, v.n. To make a noise or sound (with, -se), to sound, blow:—śabd-kosh, s.m. 'Wordrepository'; a dictionary, a vocabulary:—śabdotpatti (˚da+ut˚), s.f. The origin or the production of words:—śabd-vedhī, vulg. śabdbedhī, adj. & s.m. (f. -inī), 'Sound-piercing,' piercing (an invisible object) the sound (of which only is heard; e.g. sabd-bedhītīr);—an archer who can pierce an invisible object the sound of which only is heard:—śabd-yoni, s.f. 'Word-source'; the source ororigin of a word, a radical word, a root.