zaz
za/z mfn. pl. ( prob. for orig. zakz ; nom. acc. za/w instr. zaqBi/s dat. abl. zaqBya/s , gen. zaRRA/m loc. zawsu/ ; in comp. zaz becomes zaw before hard letters, zaq before soft, zo before d , which is changed into q , and R before nasals) six (with the counted object in apposition or exceptionally in gen. or ifc. , e.g. zaq ftavah , or zaq ftunAm , ‘the six seasons’, zawsu zatsu mAsezu , ‘at periods of six months’, Mn. viii, 403 at the end of a Bahuvrīhi compound it is declined like other words ending in z , e. g. priya-zazas nom. pl. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 22 Schol. ; among the words used as expressions for the number six ( esp. in giving dates) are aNga , darSana , tarka , rasa , ftu , vajrakoRa , kArttikeya-muKa ), RV. &c. &c.