शस्त्र

Borrowed from Sanskrit शस्त्र (śastra).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃəs.t̪ɾᵊ/,

शस्त्र • (śastra) m (Urdu spelling شستر)

1. weapon, sword, dagger; any handheld instrument used for cutting, wounding, or self-defense

   Synonym: हथियार (hathiyār)

   तलवार, छुरी, गदा इत्यादि को शस्त्र कहते हैं।

   talvār, churī, gadā ityādi ko śastra kahte ha͠i.

   Swords, knives and clubs are examples of weapons.

• अस्त्र (astr)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “शस्त्र”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Sanskrit शस्त्र (śastra).

• IPA^(key): /ɕəs.t̪ɾə/

शस्त्र • (śastra) n

1. weapon

   Synonym: हत्यार (hatyār)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “शस्त्र”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “शस्त्र”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911) “शस्त्र”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press
• दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण (1932-1950) “शस्त्र”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे : महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɐs.tɾɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɕɐs̪.t̪ɾɐ/

From शंस् (śaṃs) +‎ -त्र (-tra).

शस्त्र • (śastrá) stem, n

1. invocation, praise (applied to any hymn recited either audibly or inaudibly, as opposed to स्तोम (stoma), which is sung, but especially the verses recited by the hotṛ and his assistant as an accompaniment to the grahas at the soma libation)
2. reciting, recitation

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćastrám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes-tróm, from *ḱes- (“to cut”). Compare Latin castrō (“I prune”) (whence English castrate), Albanian thadër (“adze”).^[1]

शस्त्र • (śastrá) stem, m

1. sword

• → Hindi: शस्त्र (śastra) (learned)
• → Odia: ଶସ୍ତ୍ର (śastra) (learned)
• → Old Javanese: śastra
  • → Balinese: ᬲᬵᬲ᭄ᬢ᭄ᬭ (sastra, “arrow”)
• →⇒ Telugu: శస్త్రము (śastramu)
• →⇒ Punjabi: ਸ਼ਸਤਰ (śastar)

शस्त्र • (śastrá) stem, n

1. an instrument for cutting or wounding, knife, sword, dagger, any weapon (even applied to an arrow Bhat2t2.; weapons are said to be of four kinds, पाणिमुक्त (pāṇi-mukta), यन्त्रमुक्त (yantra-mukta), मुक्तामुक्त (muktā*mukta), and अमुक्त (amukta))
2. any instrument or tool
3. iron, steel

• Monier Williams (1899) “शस्त्र”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1044.