ཇི་སྲིད་

ཇི་སྲིད། (Wyl. ji srid ) Pron.: jisi

• Skt. यावत्, yāvat, Pron.: yavat. From Sanskrit: fr. 3. | correlative of | as great, as large, as much, as many, as often, as frequent, as far, as long, as old (or how great = quantus, quot or qualis) | 'as many as' | 'as much as possible' | 'so much as', in •alg. applied to the first unknown quantity [= x] or so much of the unknown as its co-efficient number | in this sense also expressed by the first syllable | in •Comms. | as greatly as, as far as, as much or as many as | as often as, whenever | as long as, whilst | as soon as, the moment that, until that, till, until | (in these senses used with either | or | or with the simple copula | 'as gradually as-so' | 'while not', 'before', 'till' | 'if not', 'whether not' | 'scarcely-when', 'no sooner-than' | or | 'not only-but even.' Sometimes | is also used as a preposition with a prec. or following | or with a following | rarely | 'during one month' | 'until sunrise' | 'up to the serpent's hole' | or | 'until the completion' | 'until the maturity of the fetus.' Sometimes also with a | followed by | 'as far as the end' | 'up to five' | or with another | word | 'up to this day.' | as far as, as long as | till, until | with | with | as long as not, before | as soon as, the moment that | in as much as [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW