asamarthaa.1 Not able or competent. 2 Weak, feeble. 3 (In Rhet.) Powerless to convey the intended meaning, a defect of a word; (pb) yattadarthaṃ paṭhyate na ca tatrāsya śāktiḥ tadasamarthatvaṃ K. P. 7; e. g. in kuṃjaṃ haṃti kṛśodarī, han, though read in root-books in the sense of ‘going’, is here powerless to convey that meaning. Comp.—samāsaḥ a compound in which the conjunction of words is not as it should be; e. g. in aśrāddhabhojin, asūryaṃpaśya, a goes not with śrāddha or sūrya but with bhojin or paśya.
asamarthaa.1 Not able or competent; abhyāse'- pyasamartho'si Bg.12.10. - Weak, feeble. -3 (In Rhet.) Powerless to convey the intended meaning, a defect of a word; yattadarthaṃ paṭhyate na ca tatrāsya śaktiḥ tadasamarthatvam K. P.7; e. g. in kuñjaṃ hanti kṛśodarī; in, though read in root-books in the sense of 'going', is here powerless to convey that meaning. -Comp. -samāsaḥ a compound in which the conjunction of words is not as it should be; e. g. in aśrāddhabhojin, asūryaṃpaśya, a goes not with śrāddha or sūrya but with bhojin or paśya; Mbh. on P.I.1.43.
asamartha (3. a + sa°) n. ein best. Fehler des Ausdrucks: Missgriff in der Wortbedeutung, z. B. wenn ambudhara für Ocean (ambudhi) gesetzt wird, PRATĀPAR. 61,a,1.b,5.