प्रवाह

See also: प्रवह and प्रवह्

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रवाह (pravāha).

Pronunciation

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /pɾə.ʋɑːɦ/, [pɾɐ.ʋäːʱ]

Noun

प्रवाह • (pravāh) m

current, flow; course (literal and figurative)
1. (electricity) electric current
(Hinduism) the pouring of ashes into a holy river

Declension

Declension of प्रवाह (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	प्रवाह pravāh	प्रवाह pravāh
oblique	प्रवाह pravāh	प्रवाहों pravāhõ
vocative	प्रवाह pravāh	प्रवाहो pravāho

Sanskrit

Etymology

From प्रवह् (pravah, “to carry forwards”).

Noun

प्रवाह • (pravāha) stem, m or f by sense

a stream, river, current, running water

Descendants

→ Hindi: प्रवाह (pravāh)
→ Telugu: ప్రవాహము (pravāhamu)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “प्रवाह”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0691.

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