واد

वाद vāda, vulg. vād, bād, s.m. Speaking, talking;—sounding, sound;—speech, discourse; a word; a sentence; assertion; proposition; statement;—report, rumour;—explanation, exposition (of holy texts, etc.);—demonstrated conclusion;—an interlocution (for discovering truth);—a reply;—discussion, dispute, controversy; altercation, words;—an allegation, a plaint, an accusation:—vādānuvād (˚da+anu˚), s.m. Assertion and reply, attack and rejoinder, plea and counterplea, accusation and defence; a controversy, disputation, dispute, altercation:—vād-prativād, s.m. A formal disputation, assertion and counter-assertion, statement and contradiction; controversy:—vād-sādhan, s.m. Proof of an assertion; the maintaining of an argument, controversy:—vād-vivād, s.m. Discussion (about any statement), argument and disputation, debate, dispute, argumentation, litigation:—vād-yuddh, s.m. A war of words, logomachy, controversy, dispute.