वसन्त

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Hindi

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi) 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:
        श॒तं जी॑व श॒रदो॒ वर्ध॑मानः श॒तं हे॑म॒न्ताञ्छ॒तमु॑ वस॒न्तान्
        श॒तमि॑न्द्रा॒ग्नी स॑वि॒ता बृह॒स्पति॑: श॒तायु॑षा ह॒विषे॒मं पुन॑र्दुः॥
        śatáṃ jīva śarádo várdhamānaḥ śatáṃ hemantā́ñchatámu vasantā́n.
        śatámindrāgnī́ savitā́ bṛ́haspáti: śatā́yuṣā havíṣemáṃ púnarduḥ.
        Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.
        Through hundred-lived oblation Indra, Agni, Brhaspati, Savitā yield him for a hundred!
    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