Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
प्लुष्. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
प्लुष्, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
प्लुष् in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
प्लुष् you have here. The definition of the word
प्लुष् will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
प्लुष्, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to fry, burn, radiate, sprinkle”). Cognate with some or all of Latin pruina (“rime, hoarfrost”), pruna (“burning coal”), pruriō (“to itch”) whence English prurient; English freeze, frost.
Pronunciation
See also
Root
प्लुष् • (pluṣ)
- to burn, scorch, singe
- to sprinkle, anoint, fill
Derived terms
- प्लुष्ट (pluṣṭá, “burnt, scorched; frozen”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “प्लुष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0715.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “प्लुष्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 104
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “प्लुष्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 123, 124, 127
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 493
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0809, 0856”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 0809, 0856