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Bengali
Etymology
From Sanskrit उच्छ्वास (ucchvāsa). Cognate with Hindi उसाँस (usā̃s), Assamese উশাহ (uxah). Doublet of উচ্ছ্বাস (uccchaś), a tatsama.
Noun
উশাস • (uśaś)
- breath, inhalation
References
Early Assamese
Etymology
From Sanskrit *উৎশ্ৱাস (utśvāsa), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷes- (“to pant, puff, sigh”). Related to Latin queror, Sanskrit श्वास (śvāsá). Cognate with English quarrel, Pashto ساه (sāh, “breath, blow, puff, soul, spirit, essence”), Baluchi ساہ (sáh, “breath, blow, essence”).
Noun
উশাস (uśaso)
- breathe, inhalation, aspiration, inbreathe
নপাৱে উশাস তেজ বহে নাকে মুখে ।
নমৰিল কথমপি জীল বৰ দুখে ॥- nopawe uśaso tejo bohe nake mukhe ,
nomorilo kothomopi jīlo boro dukhe . - Blood flows on the face and nose because it could not breathe,
although it did not die somehow, it lived the rest of its life in pain.
Descendants