शश

See also: शिशी, शीशा, शीशी, शिशु, and शीश-

Sanskrit

From earlier *शस (śasa) (by assimilation of the second sibilant to the first), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćasás (“hare”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂s- (“grey, hare”). Cognate with English hare, Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی‎ (soe, “hare”), Welsh ceinach (“hare, rabbit”), and Latin cānus (“white”).

शश • (śaśá) m

hare, rabbit
antelope
lunar maria (which are thought to resemble a hare or rabbit)
a kind of meteor
name of a man born under a particular constellation
a man of mild character and easily led (one of the four classes into which men are divided by erotic writers, the other three being अश्व (aśva), मृग (mṛga) and वृषन् (vṛṣan))
the लोध्र (lodhra) tree, Symplocos racemosa
gum-myrrh
name of a part of जम्बुद्वीप (Jambu-dvīpa)

Masculine a-stem declension of शश (śaśá)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	शशः śaśáḥ	शशौ śaśaú	शशाः / शशासः¹ śaśā́ḥ / śaśā́saḥ¹
Vocative	शश śáśa	शशौ śáśau	शशाः / शशासः¹ śáśāḥ / śáśāsaḥ¹
Accusative	शशम् śaśám	शशौ śaśaú	शशान् śaśā́n
Instrumental	शशेन śaśéna	शशाभ्याम् śaśā́bhyām	शशैः / शशेभिः¹ śaśaíḥ / śaśébhiḥ¹
Dative	शशाय śaśā́ya	शशाभ्याम् śaśā́bhyām	शशेभ्यः śaśébhyaḥ
Ablative	शशात् śaśā́t	शशाभ्याम् śaśā́bhyām	शशेभ्यः śaśébhyaḥ
Genitive	शशस्य śaśásya	शशयोः śaśáyoḥ	शशानाम् śaśā́nām
Locative	शशे śaśé	शशयोः śaśáyoḥ	शशेषु śaśéṣu
Notes	¹Vedic

Monier Williams (1899), “शश”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1060/1.

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