अपि

अपि (api)

1. Devanagari script form of api
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎, page 6; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     या च पन सक्कतगन्थेसु समञ्ञा घोसाति वाघोसाति वा ता पयोगे सति एत्थापि पयुज्जते

     Yā ca pana sakkataganthesu samaññā ghosāti vāghosāti vā tā payoge sati etthāpi payujjate.

     And moreover that designation either 'voiced' or 'unvoiced' which is in Sanskrit texts is applied even here when there is occasion.

अपि (api)

1. Devanagari script form of api (“even”)

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hápi, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hápi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́.pi/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ.pi/

अपि • (ápi)

1. (preposition with location) close by or to, within, before; adv. further, also, too; even (with {na} = Latin quidem); at least, however, but (between words, clauses and sentences, or after, r. before an emphasized word).
2. After numerals = all

   all the four castes, etc.

3. At the beginning of a sentence, it is a particle of interrogation.

अपि • (ápi)

1. too
2. also

अपि • (ápi)

1. With an optative it expresses hope, fear, or desire. -- {api ca} or {cApi} further, moreover. {api--api} (or {ca}) as well as. {api ca--ja cApi} rather than. {ye'pi--te'pi} they too--who. {yadyapi} however, although. {tathApi} even so, nevertheless.
2. Converts an interrogative into an indefinite.

• Monier Williams (1899) “अपि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 55/1.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 86
• “अपि” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 30.