पूय्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *puH- (to be foul, rotten; stink). Cognate with Ancient Greek πῦον (pûon), Latin pūs (pus), Latin putridus (putrid), Lithuanian pū́ti (to rot), Old English fūl whence English foul.

Pronunciation

Root

पूय् (pūy)

  1. to become foul or putrid
  2. to stink

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), पूय्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0641.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 099
  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), पूय्”, 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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