आपीन

Sanskrit

Etymology

आ- (ā-) +‎ पीन (pīna), ultimately from the root पी (pī, “swelling, swollen, full, round, thick”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɑː.piː.nɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈpiː.n̪ɐ/

Noun

आपीन • (āpīna) stem, n

1. an udder
   • c. 400 CE, Kālidāsa, Raghuvaṃśa 2.18:

     आपीनभारोद्वहनप्रयत्नाद्गृष्टिर्गुरुत्वाद्वपुषो नरेन्द्रः।
     उभावलंचक्रतुरञ्चिताभ्यां तपोवनावृत्तिपथं गताभ्याम्

     āpīnabhārodvahanaprayatnādgṛṣṭirgurutvādvapuṣo narendraḥ.
     ubhāvalaṃcakraturañcitābhyāṃ tapovanāvṛttipathaṃ gatābhyām

     despite being young, the cow strives carrying (already) weighty udders and (likewise does) the king (ie, Dilipa),
     agait with his ponderous physique, both in fain tableau gracefully returning from the woods to the hermitage

Declension

See also

• पीनककुद्मत् (pīnakakudmat, “whoever/whatever has a fat hump”)
• पीनत्व (pīnatva, “fatness, corpulency, compactness, denseness”)
• पीनवक्षस् (pīnavakṣas, “full-breasted, large-chested”)
• पीनस्तन (pīnastana, “the full breast (of a woman)”)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “आपीन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 144.