vaḍḍh + a
grow
grows; prospers
Vaḍḍhati [Vedic vardhati, vr̥dh, cf. Avesta vərəđaiti to increase. To this root belongs Pāli uddha "high up" (= Greek ορθός straight). Defined at Dhātup 109 simply as "vaḍḍhane"] primary meaning "to increase" (transitive and intransitive); hence: to keep on, to prosper, to multiply, to grow S I 15 (read vaḍḍh° for vaṭṭ°); II 206 (vaṇṇena); IV 73, 250; A V 249 (paññāya); Snp 329 (paññā ca sutañ ca); Ja III 131 (porāṇaṃ vaḍḍhaṃ vaḍḍhataṃ, imperative medium 3rd singular); V 66 (sadā so vaḍḍhate rājā sukka-pakkhe va candimā); Pv I 1 2 (dātā puññena v.); Pp 71; Miln 9; Mhv 7, 68 (putta-dhītāhi vaḍḍhitvā having numerous sons and daughters); 22, 73 (ubho vaḍḍhiṃsu dārakā, grew up); Pj II 319; Pv-a 94. — present participle vaḍḍhamāna 1. thriving Pj I 119 (read as Vaḍḍh°, proper name); 2. increasing J I 199 (putta-dhītāhi); Mhv 23, 34 (°chāyāyaṃ as the shadows increased). — See also pari°. — past participle vaḍḍha, vaddha, vuḍḍha, vuddha, buḍḍha. — causative I vaḍḍheti, in many shades of meaning, all based upon the notion of progressive motion. Thus to be translated in any of the following senses: to increase, to make move on (cf. vv.ll. vaṭṭeti), to bring onto, to further; to take an interest in, to indulge in, practise; to be busy with, cause to prosper; to arrange; to make for; and in a general sense "to make" (cf. derivation vaḍḍhaka "maker," i.e. tailor; vaḍḍhaki the same, i.e. carpenter; vaḍḍhana, etc.). The latter development into "make" is late. 1. to increase, to raise Snp 275 (rajaṃ); Sv I 115; Mhv 29, 66 (maṅgalaṃ to raise the chant); Pv-a 168 (+ brūheti). 2. to cultivate (vipassenaṃ insight) Ja I 117 (preterit °esi); Pv-a 14. 3. to rear, to bring up Mhv 35, 103 (preterit vaḍḍhesi). 4. (with reference to food) to get ready, arrange, serve in (locative) Ja III 445 (pātiyā on the dish); IV 67 (karoṭiyaṃ), 391. 5. to exalt Ja I 338 (akulīne vaḍḍhessati). 6. to participate in, to practise, attend to, to serve (accusative) S II 109 (taṇhaṃ); A II 54 (kaṭasiṃ to serve the cemetery, i.e. to die again and again: see references. under kaṭasi); Vism 111 (kasiṇaṃ), 152. 7. to make move on, to set into motion (for vaṭṭeti?), in tasaraṃ v. Pj II 265, 266. 8. to take up Mhv 26, 10 (kuntaṃ). — past participle vaḍḍhita. — causative II vaḍḍhāpeti: (1) to cause to be enlarged Mhv 35, 119. (2) to cause to be brought up or reared Ja I 455. (3) to have attended to Vin II 134 (massuṃ). (4) to cause to be made up (of food) Ja IV 68.
(vaḍḍh + a), 生長，興隆。【過】 vaḍḍhi。【過分】 ~ḍhita。【現分】 ~ḍhanta, ~ḍhamāna。【獨】 ~ḍhitvā。
(pr, pr) increases; grows; develops (in) grows, prospers Construction: vaḍḍha + ti