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Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- ৱপা (Assamese script)
- ᬯᬧᬵ (Balinese script)
- বপা (Bengali script)
- 𑰪𑰢𑰯 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀯𑀧𑀸 (Brahmi script)
- ဝပါ (Burmese script)
- વપા (Gujarati script)
- ਵਪਾ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌵𑌪𑌾 (Grantha script)
- ꦮꦥꦴ (Javanese script)
- 𑂫𑂣𑂰 (Kaithi script)
- ವಪಾ (Kannada script)
- វបា (Khmer script)
- ວປາ (Lao script)
- വപാ (Malayalam script)
- ᠸᠠᢒᠠᢇ (Manchu script)
- 𑘪𑘢𑘰 (Modi script)
- ᠸᠠᢒᠠᠠ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧊𑧂𑧑 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐰𑐥𑐵 (Newa script)
- ଵପା (Odia script)
- ꢮꢦꢵ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆮𑆥𑆳 (Sharada script)
- 𑖪𑖢𑖯 (Siddham script)
- වපා (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩾𑩰𑩛 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚦𑚞𑚭 (Takri script)
- வபா (Tamil script)
- వపా (Telugu script)
- วปา (Thai script)
- ཝ་པཱ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒫𑒣𑒰 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨭𑨞𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
Probably from वप् (vap, “to scatter, strew”), with parallel semantic developments (albeit via different roots) across Indo-European, such as with Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”) and δέρω (dérō, “to skin, flay”), as well as English skin from the verbal to noun senses. The derivation from Proto-Indo-European *wamp- (“membrane (of bowels), intestines, womb”) (compare Old English womb, wamb (whence English womb)) is less likely.
Pronunciation
Noun
वपा • (vapā́) stem, f
- a mound or heap thrown up by ants
- a cavity, hollow, hole
- skin or membrane covering the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum
- the mucous or glutinous secretion of the bones or flesh, marrow, fat
- a fleshy prominent navel
Declension
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “वपा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 919/3.
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 504-5
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 144-5