apas 1
ápas as n. (fr. 1. áp), work, action, especially sacred act, sacrificial act RV. [Lat. opus.]
apas 2
apás mfn. active, skilful in any art RV
• (ásas), f. pl., N. of the hands and fingers (when employed in kindling the sacred fire and in performing the sacrifices) RV
• of the three goddesses of sacred speech RV. VS
• of the active or running waters RV. AV

apas 3
apás mfn. (fr. 2. áp), watery. (So some passages of the Ṛig-veda [i, 95, 4, &c.] may (according to NBD. and others) be translated where the word is applied to the running waters, 2. apás at end and apás-tama.)

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William