पुस्तक

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पुस्तक (pustaka). Doublet of पोथा (pothā) and पोस्त (post).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pʊs.t̪ək/,
• Rhymes: -ək

पुस्तक • (pustak) f (Urdu spelling پستک)

1. book, manuscript, volume

   Synonyms: किताब (kitāb), दस्तावेज़ (dastāvez), सहीफ़ा (sahīfā), ग्रंथ (granth), शास्त्र (śāstra)

   पुस्तकें यहाँ बिकती हैं। ― pustakẽ yahā̃ biktī ha͠i. ― Books are sold here.

• किताब (kitāb)

• पुस्तकालय (pustakālay)
• पाठ्यपुस्तक (pāṭhyapustak)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पुस्तक (pustaka).

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पुस्तक • (pustak) n (Latin script pustok, Kannada script ಪುಸ್ತಕ್)

1. book

From Sanskrit पुस्तक (pustaka).

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पुस्तक • (pustak) (Tirhuta 𑒣𑒳𑒮𑓂𑒞𑒏)

1. book

• किताप (kitāp)

• पुस्तकालय (pustakālay)

Marathi Wikipedia has an article on:

पुस्तक

Wikipedia ^mr

From Sanskrit पुस्तक (pustaka). Cognate with Gujarati પુસ્તક (pustak), Hindi पुस्तक (pustak), Konkani पुस्तक (pustak), Nepali पुस्तक (pustak).

• IPA^(key): /pus.t̪ək/

पुस्तक • (pustak) n

1. book

   मला हे पुस्तक खूप आवडले.

   malā he pustak khūp āvaḍle.

   I really liked this book.

• ग्रंथालय (granthālay, “library”)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “पुस्तक”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “पुस्तक”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911) “पुस्तक”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press

From Sanskrit पुस्तक (pustaka).

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• Phonetic Devanagari: पुस्तक्

पुस्तक • (pustak)

1. book

   Synonyms: किताप (kitāp), किताब (kitāb), पोथी (pothī)

• पुस्तकालय

Borrowed from some Middle Iranian language. Compare Sogdian (pwst'k, “book, document, sutra”), Manichaean Parthian pwstg (pōstag, “book, pergament”) and Persian پوست (pust, “skin, hide”) (from *pōst, from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎺𐎿𐎫𐎠 (pavastā); cognate with पवस्त (pavásta), and see the latter for further etymology).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pus.tɐ.kɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈpus̪.t̪ɐ.kɐ/

पुस्तक • (pustaka) stem, n

1. a protuberant ornament, boss
2. book, manuscript, booklet

• Monier Williams (1899) “पुस्तक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0640/3.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pōstaka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 478
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 331—332
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1963) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 319