वसन्त

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Hindi

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ʋə.sənt̪/,

Noun

वसन्त (vasantm (Urdu spelling وسنت)

  1. Alternative spelling of वसंत (vasant)

Declension

Nepali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वसन्त (vasanta).

Pronunciation

Noun

वसन्त (vasanta)

  1. spring (season)

See also

Seasons in Nepali · ऋतु (r̥tu) (layout · text) · category
बसन्त (basanta), वसन्त (vasanta, spring) गर्मी (garmī),
ग्रीष्म (grīṣma, summer)
शरद (śarad, autumn) हिउँद (hiũd),
शिशिर (śiśira, winter)

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

वसन्त m

  1. Devanagari script form of vasanta

Declension

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *wasantás, from Proto-Indo-European *wesn̥-tó-s, from *wósr̥ (spring). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἔαρ (éar), Latin vēr, Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬀𐬭 (vaŋhar), Persian بهار (bahâr), Old Norse vár, Russian весна́ (vesná).

Pronunciation

Noun

वसन्त (vasantá) stemm

  1. "brilliant (season)"; the spring
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.161.4:
      शतं जीव शरदो वर्धमानः शतं हेमन्ताञ्छतमु वसन्तान्
      śataṃ jīva śarado vardhamānaḥ śataṃ hemantāñchatamu vasantān.
      Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.
  2. a particular metre (4 times ˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ˘ ) (Col.)
  3. name of a man (Rājat.)

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of वसन्त (vasantá)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative वसन्तः
vasantáḥ
वसन्तौ / वसन्ता¹
vasantaú / vasantā́¹
वसन्ताः / वसन्तासः¹
vasantā́ḥ / vasantā́saḥ¹
Vocative वसन्त
vásanta
वसन्तौ / वसन्ता¹
vásantau / vásantā¹
वसन्ताः / वसन्तासः¹
vásantāḥ / vásantāsaḥ¹
Accusative वसन्तम्
vasantám
वसन्तौ / वसन्ता¹
vasantaú / vasantā́¹
वसन्तान्
vasantā́n
Instrumental वसन्तेन
vasanténa
वसन्ताभ्याम्
vasantā́bhyām
वसन्तैः / वसन्तेभिः¹
vasantaíḥ / vasantébhiḥ¹
Dative वसन्ताय
vasantā́ya
वसन्ताभ्याम्
vasantā́bhyām
वसन्तेभ्यः
vasantébhyaḥ
Ablative वसन्तात्
vasantā́t
वसन्ताभ्याम्
vasantā́bhyām
वसन्तेभ्यः
vasantébhyaḥ
Genitive वसन्तस्य
vasantásya
वसन्तयोः
vasantáyoḥ
वसन्तानाम्
vasantā́nām
Locative वसन्ते
vasanté
वसन्तयोः
vasantáyoḥ
वसन्तेषु
vasantéṣu
Notes
  • ¹Vedic

Descendants

Borrowed terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “वसन्त”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0930/1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 533