संवत्सर

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit संवत्सर (saṃvatsará); equivalent to सम्- (sam-) +‎ वत्सर (vatsar).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /səm.ʋət̪.səɾ/,

संवत्सर • (samvatsar) m

1. (rare, formal) a year

   Synonyms: वर्ष (varṣ), अब्द (abd), साल (sāl), बरस (baras)

2. a year of the Vikrama era, the first in a cycle of five or six years

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “संवत्सर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha

From सम् (sam, “one; complete”) + Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐ̃.ʋɐt.sɐ.ɾɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪ɐ̃ˈʋɐt̪.s̪ɐ.ɾɐ/

संवत्सर • (saṃvatsará) stem, m

1. a year, a full year
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 7.103.9:

     संवत्सरे प्रावृष्यागतायां तप्ता घर्मा अश्नुवते विसर्गम् ॥

     saṃvatsare prāvṛṣyāgatāyāṃ taptā gharmā aśnuvate visargam.

     Soon as the Rain-time in the year returneth, these who were heated kettles gain their freedom.

2. a year of the vikrama era, the first in a cycle of five or six years

• संवत्सम् (saṃvatsam)
• वत्स (vatsa)

• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀲𑀁𑀯𑀙𑀭 (saṃvachara), 𑀲𑀯𑀙𑀮 (savachala)
• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀲𑀁𑀯𑀘𑁆𑀙𑀭 (saṃvacchara)
• Pali: saṃvacchara
• → Bengali: সংবৎসর (śoṅbotśor) (learned)
• → Gujarati: સંવત્સર (sãvatsar) (learned)
• → Hindustani: (learned)

  Hindi: संवत्सर (samvatsar)

• → Kannada: ಸಂವತ್ಸರ (saṃvatsara) (learned)
• → Marathi: संवत्सर (sauvatsar) (learned)
• → Nepali: सम्बत्सर (sambatsar) (learned)
• → Tamil: சம்வத்சரம் (camvatcaram) (learned)
• → Telugu: సంవత్సరము (saṁvatsaramu) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “संवत्सर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1114.