प्रुष्

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

  • प्रोष् (proṣ)

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *prews- (to sprinkle, radiate, freeze). Cognate with Latin pruina (rime, hoarfrost), pruna (burning coal), pruriō (to itch) whence English prurient; English freeze, frost.

Pronunciation

Root

प्रुष् • (pruṣ)

  1. to sprinkle, shower, wet, moisten
  2. to become wet, fill

Derived terms

  • प्रुष्वा (pruṣvā́, hoarfrost, rime, ice)
  • प्रुष्णोति (pruṣṇoti)
  • प्रुष्णुते (pruṣṇute)
  • प्रोषिष्यते (proṣiṣyate)
  • पुप्रोष (puproṣa)
  • अप्रोषीत् (aproṣīt)
  • प्रुषायति (pruṣāyati)
  • प्रुषायते (pruṣāyate)
  • प्रुष्णाति (pruṣṇāti)
  • प्रुष्णत् (pruṣṇat)
  • प्रुष्यति (pruṣyati)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “प्रुष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0711/3.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “प्रुष्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 103
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “प्रुष्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 191; 192-3
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