सेक

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /seːk/

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सेक (séka).

सेक • (sek) m

1. sprinkling, irrigation, moistening or watering with

   Synonyms: तराई (tarāī), सिंचाई (sĩcāī), आर्द्रण (ārdraṇ)

2. pouring out, emission, effusion
3. a libation, offering

   Synonym: अभिषेक (abhiṣek)

4. a drop of any liquid

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

सेक • (sek) f (Urdu spelling سیک)

1. Alternative form of सेंक (sẽk, “warming, heating, basking”)

सेक • (sek)

1. inflection of सेकना (seknā):
   1. stem
   2. second-person singular intimate present imperative

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “सेक”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “सेक”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

सेक m

1. Devanagari script form of seka (“sprinkling”)

From Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ-os, from *seykʷ- (“to moisten, filter”) +‎ *-os. Compare Ancient Greek ἰκμάς (ikmás), Old English sēon (“to filter”), Russian сцать (scatʹ, “to piss”). The Sanskrit root is सिच् (sic, “to moisten, pour out, sprinkle”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐ́j.kɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪eː.kɐ/

सेक • (séka) stem, m

1. sprinkling, irrigation, moistening or watering with
2. pouring out, emission, effusion
3. a shower-bath
4. Synonym of अभिषेक (abhiṣeká, “libation, offering”)
5. a drop of any liquid

• अभिषेक (abhiṣeka)

• Pali: seka
• Prakrit: 𑀲𑁂𑀅 (sea)
• → Hindi: सेक (sek) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “सेक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1246, column 1.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “सेक”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “seka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press