लिप्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

From zero grade of Proto-Indo-European *leyp-.

Pronunciation

Root

लिप् (lip)

  1. to smear, anoint
  2. to soil, taint, pollute, defile
  3. to inflame, kindle

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References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “लिप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 902, column 2.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 147
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “lip”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.