शुष्क

Borrowed from Sanskrit शुष्क (śúṣka). Doublet of सूखा (sūkhā).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ʃʊʂk/, [ʃʊʃk]

शुष्क • (śuṣk) (indeclinable)

1. dry, shrivelled; arid

   Synonym: सूखा (sūkhā)

2. dull, uninteresting

   उसको जीवन शुष्क लगने लगा है।

   usko jīvan śuṣk lagne lagā hai.

   Life has become dull for him.

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “शुष्क”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsúškas (“dry”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- (“to be dry”).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬎𐬱𐬐𐬀‎ (huška, “dry”), Persian خشک‎ (xošk, “dry”), Russian суши́ть (sušítʹ, “to dry”), Lithuanian saũsinti, Old English sēarian (whence English sear).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕúʂ.kɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɕuʂ.kɐ/

शुष्क • (śúṣka)

1. dried, dried up, dry, arid, parched, shrivelled, emaciated, shrunk, withered
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.18.10:

     अग्निर्न शुष्कं वनमिन्द्र हेती रक्षो नि धक्ष्यशनिर्न भीमा ।

     agnirna śuṣkaṃ vanamindra hetī rakṣo ni dhakṣyaśanirna bhīmā .

     As Agni burns down the dry forest like a dart, burn down the demons like a missile, O Indra.

2. useless, fruitless, groundless, vain, unprofitable, empty
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
   • c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti
3. mere, simple

• शुष्यति (śúṣyati)
• शोषयति (śoṣáyati)

• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀲𑀼𑀓𑁆𑀔 (sukkha)
  • Konkani: सुकें (sukẽ)
  • Marathi: सुका (sukā)
• Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀲𑀼𑀓𑁆𑀔 (sukkha)
  • Bengali: শুখা (śukha)
• Paisaci Prakrit:
  • Punjabi: ਸੁੱਕਾ (sukkā)
  • Saraiki: سُکّا‎ (sukkā)
• Pali: sukkha
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀲𑀼𑀓𑁆𑀔 (sukkha)
  • Gujarati: સુકા (sukā)
  • Hindi: सूखा (sūkhā)
  • Romani: śuko

• Monier Williams (1899), “शुष्क”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1084.