Vaccha¹

a calf Dhp.284; Ja.v.101; Vism.163 (in simile), Vism.269 (id.; kūṭa˚ a maimed calf); Dhs-a.62 (with popular etym. “vadatī ti vaccho”); Vv-a.100, Vv-a.200 (taruṇa˚). On vaccha in similes see J.P.T.S. 1907, 131.

• -giddhinī longing for her calf SN.iv.181.
• -gopālaka a cow-herd Vism.28.
• -danta “calf-tooth,” a kind of arrow or javelin MN.i.429; Ja.vi.448.
• -pālaka cow-herd Vv.51#2.

Vedic vatsa, lit. “one year old, a yearling”; cp. Gr. ε ̓́τος year, Sk. vatsara id., Lat vetus old, vitulus calf; Goth. wiprus a year old lamb = Ohg. widar = E wether

Vaccha²

a tree; only in mālā˚; an ornamental plant Vin.ii.12; Vin.iii.179; Vism.172; Dhp-a.ii.109.

= rukkha, fr. vṛkṣa