विसर्ग

From वि- (vi-, “away; about; in different directions”) +‎ सृज् (sṛj, “to send forth; to release; to emit; etc.”, root) +‎ -अ (-a, nominalization suffix). The root is inherited from Proto-Indo-European *selǵ- (“to let go, send”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋi.sɐɾ.ɡɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋiˈs̪ɐɾ.ɡɐ/

विसर्ग • (visargá) stem, m

1. liberation, freedom, letting go
   • 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. sending forth, emission, discharge
3. voiding, evacuation (of excrement)
4. cessation, end
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
5. (phonetics) the visarga; the symbol "ः" denoting the voiceless glottal fricative

   Synonym: विसर्जनीय (visarjanīya)

• → English: visarga

• Monier Williams (1899) “विसर्ग”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1001/1.