अम्बु

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Uncertain. The hapax legomenon कियाम्बु (kiyāmbu, water-lily) appears to be a prefixed form of this word. Together with it and अम्भ, it may be of substrate origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

अम्बु • (ambu) stem, n

  1. water
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:जल

References

  • Apte, Macdonell (2022) “अम्बु”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]
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