पायस

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पायस (pāyasa).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pɑː.jəs/,

पायस • (pāyas) m (Urdu spelling پایس)

1. emulsion
2. kheer

   Synonym: खीर (khīr)

Vṛddhi derivative of पयस् (páyas, “milk”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɑ́ː.jɐ.sɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.jɐ.s̪ɐ/

पायस • (pā́yasa) stem

1. any item made from milk

पायस • (pā́yasa) stem, n

1. milk

   Synonyms: निर्यास (niryāsa), क्षीर (kṣīra), दुग्ध (dugdha)

   • c. 500 CE, Raghuvaṃśa 2.63:

     मां केवालानां पायसां प्रसूतिम प्रसन्नां कामदुघां अवेहि न

     māṃ kevālānāṃ pāyasāṃ prasūtima prasannāṃ kāmadughāṃ avehi na

     As a mere (cow) producer or milk you ought to know me not, but as a granter of any desired thing if (I am) being pleased

2. food prepared with milk, especially boiled rice
3. the resin of the Pinus Longifolia
4. juice or sap in general

   Synonym: रस (rasa)

• पायसापूप (pāyasāpūpa, “a type of cake made with milk and rice”)
• पायसिक (pāyasika, “fond of boiled milk”)
• पायसापिण्डारक (pāyasāpiṇḍāraka, “a monk or mendicant surviving on milk-derived products such as boiled rice”)

• Helu Prakrit:
  • Sinhalese: පයස් (payas)
• Khasa Prakrit:
  • Garhwali: पाइस (pāis)
• Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀧𑀸𑀬𑀲 (pāyasa)
  • Assamese: পাহ (pah)
    • ⇒ Assamese: পাহ-ভাত (pah-bhat)
• Pali: pāyasa, pāyāsa
• → Assamese: পায়স (payox) (learned)
• → Bengali: পায়স (paẏoś), পায়েস (paẏes) (learned)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: पायस (pāyas) (learned)

  Urdu: پایس (pāyas) (learned)

• → Kannada: ಪಾಯಸ (pāyasa) (learned)
• → Konkani: पायस (pāyas) (learned)
• → Malayalam: പായസം (pāyasaṁ) (learned)
• → Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠄꠡ (faeś) (learned) (probably through Bengali)
• → Tamil: பாயசம் (pāyacam) (learned)
• → Telugu: పాయసం (pāyasaṁ) (learned)

• पीयते (pīyate)
• पयस (payasa)

• Monier Williams (1899) “पायस”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 619.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pāyasa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press