पक्व

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पक्व (pakvá). Doublet of पक्का (pakkā).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pək.ʋᵊ/,

पक्व • (pakva) (indeclinable) (rare, formal)

1. cooked, baked, roasted, baked, boiled
2. accomplished, perfect, fully developed
3. ripe, mature
4. digested

पक्व • (pakva) m

1. cooked food

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “पक्व”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “पक्व”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “पक्व”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-European *pₔkʷ-wó-s, from the root *pekʷ- (“to cook”). The Sanskrit root is पच् (pac). See पचति (pacati) for cognates.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɐk.ʋɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐk.ʋɐ/

पक्व • (pakvá) stem

1. cooked, baked, roasted, baked, boiled, prepared on a fire
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 5.73.8:

     मध्व ऊ षु मधूयुवा रुद्रा सिषक्ति पिप्युषी ।
     यत्समुद्राति पर्षथः पक्वाः पृक्षो भरन्त वाम् ॥

     madhva ū ṣu madhūyuvā rudrā siṣakti pipyuṣī.
     yatsamudrāti parṣathaḥ pakvāḥ pṛkṣo bharanta vām.

     Lovers of sweetness, Rudras, she who streams with sweetness waits on you.
     When ye have travelled through the seas men bring you gifts of well-cooked food.

2. warmed
3. burnt, baked (of bricks and earthen pots)
   • c. 700 BCE, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa
4. ripe, mature
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 3.45.4:

     वृक्षं पक्वं फलमङ्कीव धूनुहीन्द्र सम्पारणं वसु ॥

     vṛkṣaṃ pakvaṃ phalamaṅkīva dhūnuhīndra sampāraṇaṃ vasu.

     Shake, Indra, as with hooks, the tree for ripened fruit, for wealth to satisfy our wish.

5. accomplished, perfect, fully developed (as the understanding, character)
6. ripe for decay, near to death, decrepit, perishing, decaying
7. grey, hoary (as the hair)

पक्व • (pakvá) stem, n

1. cooked food, dish
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
2. ripe corn
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda
3. the ashes of burnt corpse

• पक्वक (pakvaka)

• Pali: pakka
• Prakrit: 𑀧𑀓𑁆𑀓 (pakka)
  • Old Awadhi: पाक (pāka)
  • Gujarati: પાક (pāk, “boiled sugar”)
  • Marathi: पाक (pāk)
    • → Kannada: ಪಾಕ (pāka, “sugar syrup”)
  • Konkani: pā̃k ("sugar syrup")

    Devanagari script: पांक

    Kannada script: ಪಾಂಕ

    Latin script: pank

  • Punjabi: pakk

    Gurmukhi script: ਪੱਕ

    Shahmukhi script: پَکّ

  • → Tamil: பக்கா (pakkā)
• → Hindi: पक्व (pakva)

• Monier Williams (1899) “पक्व”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 575, column 1.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pakvá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press