फेन

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)pHóy-nh₂-os, from *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Cognate with Lithuanian spáinė, Russian пе́на (péna), Latin pūmex (“pumice”), spuma (“froth”), Old English fām (whence English foam).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pʰɐ́j.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰeː.n̪ɐ/

फेन • (phéna) stem, m or n

1. foam, froth, scum
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 8.14.13:

     अपां फेनेन नमुचेः शिर इन्द्रोदवर्तयः ।

     apāṃ phenena namuceḥ śira indrodavartayaḥ.

     With waters' foam thou torest off, Indra, the head of Namuci

2. moisture of the lips, saliva
3. white cuttlefish bone, supposed to be indurated foam of the sea

• फेनक (phenaka)

फेन • (phéna) stem, m

1. name of a man

• Pali: pheṇa
• Dardic:
  • Kalasha: phénu
• Magadhi Prakrit:
  • Assamese: ফেন (phen)
  • Bengali: ফেনা (phena)
• → Tamil: பேனம் (pēṉam)
• → Malayalam: ഫേനം (phēnaṁ)

• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “phena”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.