1. svid ind. ( prob. fr. 5. su + id ; cf. kuvid ) a particle of interrogation or inquiry or doubt, often translatable by ‘do you think?’ ‘perhaps’, ‘pray’, ‘indeed’, ‘any’ ( esp. used after the interrogative ka and its derivatives, e.g. kaH svid ezAm brAhmaRAnAm anUcAna-tamaH , ‘pray who [or ‘who do you think’] is the most learned of these Brahman s?’, ŚBr. ; but also without another interrogative, e.g. tvaM svin no yAjYavalkya brakmizWo 'si , ‘do you think Yājñavalkya , you are the greatest Brāhman among us?’, ib. ; also used after uta , api , Aho , and utA ho , and disjunctively in the first or second or both parts of a double interrogation, thus: kiMnu-svid ; kiMsvid-svid ; svid-svid ; svid-utA ho ; nu-svid ; svid-nu ; svid-uta ; svid-vA ; svid-kimu ; svid-kim-nukim ; sometimes making a preceding interrogative indefinite, e.g. kva/ svid , ‘anywhere’; ka/H svid , ‘whoever’, ‘any one’; similarly with yad , e.g. yad svid dIyate , ‘whatever is given’, MaitrS. ; sometimes apparently a mere expletive), RV. &c.;
2. svid cl. 1. Ā. 4. P. ( Dhātup. xviii, 4 ; xxvi, 79 ) svedate or svidyati ( Ā. svidyate , Yājñ. ; p. svidyamAna , Suśr. ; pf. sizveda Gr. ; sizvide , MBh. ; p. sizvidAna/ , RV. ; aor. asvidat , Śiś. ; fut. svettA , svetsyati Gr. ; ind.p. -svedam , Br. ), to sweat, perspire, AitĀr. ; ChUp. ; KātyŚr. ; MBh. &c.; ( svedate ), to be anointed, Dhātup. ; to be disturbed (?), ib. : Caus. svedayati ( aor. asizvidat ), to cause to sweat, treat with sudorifics, Suśr. ; to foment, soften, SāmavBr. : Desid. of Caus. sisvedayizati , Gr. : Desid. sizvitsati , ib. : Intens. sezvidyate , sezvetti , ib.
svid ind. A particle of interrogation or inquiry, often implying ‘doubt’, or ‘surprise’, and translateable by ‘what’, ‘hey’. ‘hallo’, ‘can it be that’. It is added to interrogative pronouns in this sense or to give an indefinite sense; kAsvidavaguMWanavatI nAtiparisPuwaSarIralAvaRyA Ś. 5. 13 ; Me. 14. It is sometimes used disjunctively in the sense of ‘either,’ ‘or’, with nu, uta, vA &c.; see Ki. 8. 35 , 12. 15 , 13. 8 , 14. 60 ; Aho also.
svid I. 4 P. ( svidyati, svidita or svinna ) To sweat, perspire; svidyati kURati vellati K. P. 10 ; U. 3. 41 , Ku. 7. 77 ; Māl. 1. 35 ; sa tvAM paSyati kaMpate pulakayatyAnaMdati svidyati Gīt. 11. II. 1 A. ( svedate, svinna or svedita ) 1 To be anointed. 2 To be greasy or unctuous; Māl. 5. 17. 3 To be disturbed. — Caus. ( svedadayati-te ) 1 To cause to perspire. 2 To heat.