वृष्टि

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁wérs-ti-s ~ *h₁wr̥s-téy-s, from the root *h₁wers- (“to rain”); related to वर्ष (varṣa).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋŕ̩ʂ.ʈi/, /ʋr̩ʂ.ʈí/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʋr̩ʂ.ʈi/

वृष्टि • (vṛṣṭí or vṛ́ṣṭi) stem, f

1. rain
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 7.40.6:

     मात्र॑ पूषन्नाघृण इरस्यो॒ वरू॑त्री॒ यद्रा॑ति॒षाच॑श्च॒ रास॑न्।
     म॒यो॒भुवो॑ नो॒ अर्व॑न्तो॒ नि पा॑न्तु वृ॒ष्टिं परि॑ज्मा॒ वातो॑ ददातु॥

     mā́tra pūṣannāghṛṇa irasyo várūtrī yádrātiṣā́caśca rā́san.
     mayobhúvo no árvanto ní pāntu vṛṣṭíṃ párijmā vā́to dadātu.

     Be not thou angry here, O glowing Puṣan, for what Varūtrī and the Bounteous gave us.
     May the swift-moving Gods protect and bless us, and Vāta send us rain, who wanders round us.

• Pali: vuṭṭhi
• → Bengali: বৃষ্টি (briśṭi)
• → Gujarati: વૃષ્ટિ (vŕṣṭi)
• → Tamil: விருட்டி (viruṭṭi), விருஷ்டி (viruṣṭi)

• “वृष्टि॑ or वृ॑ष्टि” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 521, column 2.
• Monier Williams (1899) “Vṛishṭí or vṛíshṭi”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1013/1.