شویت

Ƴेत śveta, vulg. śvet, and svet, adj. White; dressed in white;—s.m. (f. -āor -nī), The colour white; a person clothed in white; a conch; a small white shell used as a coin, a cowrie; a white cloud; cumin-seed; silver; name of one of the dvīpasor minor divisions of the world (see śvet-dvīp); name of the planet Venus, or its regent śukra; name of the sixth range of the mountains which are fabled to divide the known continent, viz.the white mountains separating the varshasof Hiranmay and Romanak:—śvetārk (˚ta+ar˚), s.m. The gigantic swallow-wort, Asclepias gigantea, bearing white flowers:—śvet-ćīī, s.f. The white ant:—śvet-dvīp, s.m. 'The white island,' name of one of the eighteen minor divisions of the known continent (by some supposed to be Britain; by others identified with Vaikuntha):—śvet-dhātu, s.m. A white mineral; chalk; the milk-stone, opal, chalcedony:—śvet-sarp, s.m. (f. -ī), A white snake;—the tree Tapia cratœva:—śvet-var, adj. (f. -ā), Whitecoloured:—śvet-hastī, s.m. (f. -inī), A white elephant.