युवश

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *HyuHaśás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HyuHaćás, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós (“young”). Cognate with Latin iuvencus (“young”), Welsh ieuanc, Old English ġeong (whence English young).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ju.ʋɐ.ɕɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈju.ʋɐ.ɕɐ/

युवश • (yuvaśá) stem

1. (Vedic) young, youthful; juvenile
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.161.7:

     निश्चर्म॑णो॒ गाम॑रिणीत धी॒तिभि॒र्या जर॑न्ता युव॒शा ताकृ॑णोतन ।

     níścármaṇo gā́mariṇīta dhītíbhiryā́ járantā yuvaśā́ tā́kṛṇotana.

     Ye, by your wisdom, created a cow from a hide; and turned the old Twins young.

युवश • (yuvaśá) stem, m

1. (Vedic) a young man, a youth
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 8.35.5:

     स्तोमं॑ जुषेथां युव॒शेव॑ क॒न्यनां॒ विश्वे॒ह दे॑वौ॒ सव॒नाव॑ गच्छतम् ।

     stómaṃ juṣethāṃ yuvaśéva kanyánāṃ víśvehá devau sávanā́va gacchatam.

     Accept our praise-song as a youth accepts a maiden. Come close, O ye Twin Gods, to all libations here.

• Monier Williams (1899) “युवश”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0006.