पृष्ठ

Borrowed from Sanskrit पृष्ठ (pṛṣṭha). Doublet of पुट्ठा (puṭṭhā).

पृष्ठ • (pŕṣṭh) m

1. page

   Synonym: पन्ना (pannā)

2. back, rear

   Synonym: पिछला (pichlā)

• पृष्ठभूमि (pŕṣṭhabhūmi)

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

Borrowed from Sanskrit पृष्ठ (pṛṣṭha).

पृष्ठ • (pŕṣṭha) n

1. back, rear, hinder part
2. page

• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “पृष्ठ”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press

• IPA^(key):
• Phonetic Devanagari: प्रिस्ठ

पृष्ठ • (pr̥ṣṭha)

1. page (of a book); webpage

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *pr̥štʰám (“back”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬙𐬀 (paršta), Persian پشت (pošt, “back”), Proto-Slavic *pьrstъ.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pr̩ʂ.ʈʰɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈpr̩ʂ.ʈʰɐ/

पृष्ठ • (pṛṣṭhá) stem, n

1. the back; the hinder part or rear of anything
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.58.2:

     अत्यो न पृष्ठं प्रुषितस्य रोचते दिवो न सानु स्तनयन्नचिक्रदत् ॥

     atyo na pṛṣṭhaṃ pruṣitasya rocate divo na sānu stanayannacikradat.

     His back, as he is sprinkled, glistens like a horse: loud hath he roared and shouted like the heights of heaven

2. the upper side, surface, top, height

   with दिवः (diváḥ), or नाकस्य (nā́kasya) — the surface of the sky, vault of heaven; cf. घृतपृष्ठ (ghṛta-pṛṣṭha)

3. the flat roof of a house
4. a page of a book
5. name of particular arrangement of Samans (employed at the midday libation and formed from the रथंतर (rathaṃtara), बृहत् (bṛhat), वैरूप (vairūpa), वैराज (vairāja), शाक्वर (śākvara), and रैवत शाक्वर (raivata śākvara))
6. name of various Samans

• मलपृष्ठ (malapṛṣṭha)
• जालपृष्ठ (jālapṛṣṭha)

• Pali: piṭṭhē (“on”), piṭṭhēna (“beside, along”)
• Dardic:
  • Dameli: (piṣṭ, “hillside”)
  • Kalasha: (pīṣṭo, “after”)
  • Kashmiri: پیٹھ (pyuṭhü)
  • Shina: پٹ (pĭṭŭ, “back”)
• Prakrit: 𑀧𑀺𑀝𑁆𑀞 (piṭṭha), 𑀧𑀼𑀝𑁆𑀞 (puṭṭha), 𑀧𑀝𑁆𑀞 (paṭṭha)
  • Eastern:
    • Magadhi Prakrit:
      • Assamese: পিঠি (pithi)
      • Bengali: পিঠ (piṭh)
      • Odia: ପଥା (pathā, “small grassy eminence in a river”), ପାଥଲେ (pāthale, “behind”)
      • Rohingya: fith
      • Sylheti: ꠙꠤꠑ (fiṭó)
  • Central:
    • Sauraseni Prakrit:
      • Hindi: पीठ (pīṭh), पुट्ठा (puṭṭhā), पूठ (pūṭh, “buttock”), पूठा (pūṭhā, “cover of a book”)
      • Gujarati: પાઠું (pāṭhũ, “fatal tumour on backbone, anthrax, carbuncle”), પૂઠું (pūṭhũ, “cover of a book, hips”), પુઠિયાં (puṭhiyā̃, “felloes of a wheel, hips”), પુઠે (puṭhe, “next”)
  • Northern:
    • Garhwali: पूठु (pūṭhu, “hip”), पीठ (pīṭh)
    • Kumaoni: पूठ (“back, hind part of body”)
    • Nepali: पुट्ठा (puṭṭhā, “buttock”)
    • Western Pahari:
      • Bhadrawahi: पिट्ठ (piṭṭh)
  • Southern:
    • Elu Prakrit:
      • Sinhalese: පිට (piṭa, “back; outside”), පිටු (piṭu, “pages of a book”)
    • Maharastri Prakrit:
      • Marathi: पुठा (puṭhā), पुट्ठा (puṭṭhā, “buttock of an animal, leather cover of account book”)
  • Western:
    • Paisaci Prakrit:
      • Punjabi: ਪਿੱਠ (piṭṭha), ਪੁੱਠਾ (puṭṭhā, “buttock of an animal”)
        • Lahnda: پٹھا (“hindquarter of an animal”), پٹھ (“back, wrongside of cloth”)
      • Sindhi: پُٺو (“pasteboard cover of a book”)
        • Kachchi: પૂઠુ (pūṭhu, “hip”), પૌઠા (pauṭhā, “back”)
• → Hindi: पृष्ठ (pŕṣṭh)
• → Marathi: पृष्ठ (pŕṣṭha)

• Monier Williams (1899) “पृष्ठ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 647/3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 165-6
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “prstha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 474

• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “pṛṣṭha”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.