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Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
Borrowed from Dravidian. Compare Tamil சூம்பு (cūmpu, “to suck, fondle with the lips”), Kumarbhag Paharia (cumqe, “to kiss”).
Pronunciation
Root
चुम्ब् • (cumb)
- to kiss
- to touch with the mouth
- to touch closely or softly
Derived terms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “चुम्ब्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0400/2.
- Apte, Macdonell (2022) “चुम्ब्”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 048
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 194
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “चुम्ब्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016