हेमन्त

Pali

हेमन्त m

Declension table of "हेमन्त" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	हेमन्तो (hemanto)	हेमन्ता (hemantā)
Accusative (second)	हेमन्तं (hemantaṃ)	हेमन्ते (hemante)
Instrumental (third)	हेमन्तेन (hemantena)	हेमन्तेहि (hemantehi) or हेमन्तेभि (hemantebhi)
Dative (fourth)	हेमन्तस्स (hemantassa) or हेमन्ताय (hemantāya) or हेमन्तत्थं (hemantatthaṃ)	हेमन्तानं (hemantānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	हेमन्तस्मा (hemantasmā) or हेमन्तम्हा (hemantamhā) or हेमन्ता (hemantā)	हेमन्तेहि (hemantehi) or हेमन्तेभि (hemantebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	हेमन्तस्स (hemantassa)	हेमन्तानं (hemantānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	हेमन्तस्मिं (hemantasmiṃ) or हेमन्तम्हि (hemantamhi) or हेमन्ते (hemante)	हेमन्तेसु (hemantesu)
Vocative (calling)	हेमन्त (hemanta)	हेमन्ता (hemantā)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰaymantás, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeyméns, from *ǵʰey- (“winter”). Cognate with Latin hībernum (“winter”), Ancient Greek χεῖμᾰ (kheîma), Persian (zemestân), Old Armenian ձմեռն (jmeṙn), Avestan 𐬰𐬌𐬌𐬃 (ziiā̊, “winter”).

हेमन्त • (hemantá) stem, m

winter, the cold season
- c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.161.4:
  शतं जीव शरदो वर्धमानः शतं हेमन्ताञ् छतम् उ वसन्तान्।
  śataṃ jīva śarado vardhamānaḥ śataṃ hemantāñ chatam u vasantān.
  Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.

Masculine a-stem declension of हेमन्त (hemantá)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	हेमन्तः hemantáḥ	हेमन्तौ / हेमन्ता¹ hemantaú / hemantā́¹	हेमन्ताः / हेमन्तासः¹ hemantā́ḥ / hemantā́saḥ¹
Vocative	हेमन्त hémanta	हेमन्तौ / हेमन्ता¹ hémantau / hémantā¹	हेमन्ताः / हेमन्तासः¹ hémantāḥ / hémantāsaḥ¹
Accusative	हेमन्तम् hemantám	हेमन्तौ / हेमन्ता¹ hemantaú / hemantā́¹	हेमन्तान् hemantā́n
Instrumental	हेमन्तेन hemanténa	हेमन्ताभ्याम् hemantā́bhyām	हेमन्तैः / हेमन्तेभिः¹ hemantaíḥ / hemantébhiḥ¹
Dative	हेमन्ताय hemantā́ya	हेमन्ताभ्याम् hemantā́bhyām	हेमन्तेभ्यः hemantébhyaḥ
Ablative	हेमन्तात् hemantā́t	हेमन्ताभ्याम् hemantā́bhyām	हेमन्तेभ्यः hemantébhyaḥ
Genitive	हेमन्तस्य hemantásya	हेमन्तयोः hemantáyoḥ	हेमन्तानाम् hemantā́nām
Locative	हेमन्ते hemanté	हेमन्तयोः hemantáyoḥ	हेमन्तेषु hemantéṣu
Notes	¹Vedic

Dardic:
- Phalura: ہیواند (heewaánd)
Pali: hemanta
- → Burmese: ဟေမန္တ (hemanta.), ဟေမန် (heman) (learned)
- → Khmer: ហេមន្ត (heemɑn) (learned)
Prakrit: 𑀳𑁂𑀫𑀁𑀢 (hemaṃta)
- Hindustani:
  Hindi: हेवंत (hevant)
- Romani: ivend
→ Bengali: হেমন্ত (hemôntô) (learned)
→ Kannada: ಹೇಮಂತ (hēmanta) (learned)
→ Malayalam: ഹേമന്തം (hēmantaṁ) (learned)
→ Tamil: ஹேமந்தம் (hēmantam), ஏமந்தம் (ēmantam) (learned)
→ Telugu: హేమంతము (hēmantamu) (learned)
→ Thai: เหมันต์ (hěe-man) (learned)

Monier Williams (1899) “हेमन्त”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1304/1.
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 819-20

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