स

स U+0938, स DEVANAGARI LETTER SA ← ष Devanagari ह →

• IPA^(key): /sə/ (may vary by language)

स (sa)

1. the third sibilant of the Devanagari script

• Linguistically it is considered an alveolar sibilant.

Ligatures:

• स्त्र (stra): स + त + र

• IPA^(key):

स • (sa)

1. The seventeenth consonant in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /sə/,

स • (sa)

1. the thirty-second consonant in Hindi
2. (music) the first note of the Hindi musical scale

• (Devanagari script letters) अ,‎ आ,‎ इ,‎ ई,‎ उ,‎ ऊ,‎ ऋ,‎ ए,‎ ऐ,‎ ओ,‎ औ,‎ अं,‎ अः,‎ अँ,‎ क,‎ ख,‎ ग,‎ घ,‎ ङ,‎ च,‎ छ,‎ ज,‎ झ,‎ ञ,‎ ट,‎ ठ,‎ ड,‎ ढ,‎ ण,‎ त,‎ थ,‎ द,‎ ध,‎ न,‎ प,‎ फ,‎ ब,‎ भ,‎ म,‎ य,‎ र,‎ ल,‎ व,‎ श,‎ ष,‎ स,‎ ह,‎ त्र,‎ ज्ञ,‎ क्ष,‎ क़,‎ ख़,‎ ग़,‎ ज़,‎ झ़,‎ ड़,‎ ढ़,‎ फ़ ^{(Category: Hindi letters)}

• सो (so)

From Sanskrit षष् (ṣáṣ), from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs (“six”). Cognate with Hindi छह (chah), Marathi सहा (sahā).

स • (sa/so) (Latin script sov, Kannada script ಸ)

1. six

• IPA^(key): /sə/

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स • (sa)

1. The thirty-first consonant in Marathi.

• IPA^(key):
• Phonetic Devanagari: स

स • (sa)

1. The thirty-second consonant in Nepali.

स (sa)

1. Devanagari script form of sa

स (sa)

1. Devanagari script form of sa, which is masculine nominative singular of त (ta, “that”)

स (sa)

1. Devanagari script form of sa, which is vocative singular of सन् (san, “dog”)

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐ/, /sɐ́/

• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪ɐ/

स • (sa)

1. the thirty-second consonant in Sanskrit

   Synonym: सकार (sakāra)

2. the last of the three sibilants

(Devanagari script letters) अ,‎ आ,‎ इ,‎ ई,‎ उ,‎ ऊ,‎ ऋ,‎ ॠ,‎ ऌ,‎ ॡ,‎ ए,‎ ऐ,‎ ओ,‎ औ,‎ अं,‎ अः,‎ अँ,‎ ऽ,‎ क,‎ ख,‎ ग,‎ घ,‎ ङ,‎ च,‎ छ,‎ ज,‎ झ,‎ ञ,‎ ट,‎ ठ,‎ ड,‎ ढ,‎ ण,‎ त,‎ थ,‎ द,‎ ध,‎ न,‎ प,‎ फ,‎ ब,‎ भ,‎ म,‎ य,‎ र,‎ ल,‎ व,‎ श,‎ ष,‎ स,‎ ह,‎ ळ,‎ त्र,‎ ज्ञ,‎ क्ष ^{(Category: Sanskrit letters)}

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sá, from Proto-Indo-European *só. See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

स • (sá) m

1. masculine nominative singular of तद् (tad); he, it, that

स • (sá) m

1. masculine nominative singular of तद् (tad); that one

From Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- (“whole, all, together (with)”), from the root *sem-.

स • (sa)

2. an inseparable prefix expressing "junction", "conjunction", "possession" (as opposed to a privative), "similarity", "equality"
3. when compounded with nouns to form adjectives and adverbs it may be translated by "with", "together or along with", "accompanied by", "added to", "having", "possessing", "containing", "having the same"

   सकोप (sa-kopa) — full of anger, enraged, displeased

   साग्नि (sā*gni) — together with the fire

   सभार्य (sa-bhārya) — with a wife, having a wife

   सद्रोण (sa-droṇa) — with a droṇa added to a droṇa

   सधर्मन् (sa-dharman) — having the same duties

   सवर्ण (sa-varṇa) — having the same colour or appearance, similar, like

4. "-ly"

   सकोपम् (sa-kopam) — angrily

   सोपधि (so*padhi) — fraudulently

• Sanskrit terms prefixed with स-

स • (sá) stem, ?

1. (prosody) an anapest

स • (sá) stem, ?

1. (music) Abbreviation of षड्ज (ṣaḍ-ja).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

स • (sá) stem, m

1. a snake
2. air, wind
3. a bird
4. name of Vishnu or Shiva

स • (sa) stem, n

1. knowledge
2. meditation
3. a carriage road
4. a fence

From the root सन् (san, “to procure, bestow, give, distribute”).

स • (sá) stem (root सन्)

1. (at the end of a compound) procuring, bestowing

   पशुष (paśu-ṣá) — bestowing cattle

   प्रियस (priyá-sá) — granting desired objects

• Monier Williams (1899) “स”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1111.