प्रुष्

Sanskrit

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

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), प्रुष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0711.
  • 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
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