Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. [ādau bhavaḥ yat] 1 First, pri- mitive, being at the beginning.
2 Being at the head, excellent, un- paralleled, pre-eminent, foremost; āsīnmahīkṣitāmādyaḥ praṇavaśchaṃdasāmiva R. 1. 11.
3 (At the end of comp.) Beginning with, and so on; see ādi.
4 Immediately preceding; ekādaśā- dyaṃ Śrut. 27 immediately before the 11th, i. e. 10th; so saṃyuktādyaṃ 2.
5 Eatable (ad-ṇyat). dyāḥ (m. pl.) A class of...