वपा

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
  • ৱপা (Assamese script)
  • ᬯᬧᬵ (Balinese script)
  • বপা (Bengali script)
  • 𑰪𑰢𑰯 (Bhaiksuki script)
  • 𑀯𑀧𑀸 (Brahmi script)
  • ဝပါ (Burmese script)
  • વપા (Gujarati script)
  • ਵਪਾ (Gurmukhi script)
  • 𑌵𑌪𑌾 (Grantha script)
  • ꦮꦥꦴ (Javanese script)
  • 𑂫𑂣𑂰 (Kaithi script)
  • ವಪಾ (Kannada script)
  • វបា (Khmer script)
  • ວປາ (Lao script)
  • വപാ (Malayalam script)
  • ᠸᠠᢒᠠᢇ (Manchu script)
  • 𑘪𑘢𑘰 (Modi script)
  • ᠸᠠᢒᠠ᠎ᠠ (Mongolian script)
  • 𑧊𑧂𑧑 (Nandinagari script)
  • 𑐰𑐥𑐵 (Newa script)
  • ଵପା (Odia script)
  • ꢮꢦꢵ (Saurashtra script)
  • 𑆮𑆥𑆳 (Sharada script)
  • 𑖪𑖢𑖯 (Siddham script)
  • වපා (Sinhalese script)
  • 𑩾𑩰𑩛 (Soyombo script)
  • 𑚦𑚞𑚭 (Takri script)
  • வபா (Tamil script)
  • వపా (Telugu script)
  • วปา (Thai script)
  • ཝ་པཱ (Tibetan script)
  • 𑒫𑒣𑒰 (Tirhuta script)
  • 𑨭𑨞𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

Probably from वप् (vap, “to scatter, strew”), with parallel semantic developments (albeit via different roots) across Indo-European, such as with Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”) and δέρω (dérō, “to skin, flay”), as well as English skin from the verbal to noun senses. The derivation from Proto-Indo-European *wamp- (“membrane (of bowels), intestines, womb”) (compare Old English womb, wamb (whence English womb)) is less likely.

Pronunciation

Noun

वपा • (vapā́) stem, f

  1. a mound or heap thrown up by ants
  2. a cavity, hollow, hole
  3. skin or membrane covering the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum
  4. the mucous or glutinous secretion of the bones or flesh, marrow, fat
  5. a fleshy prominent navel

Declension
Feminine ā-stem declension of वपा (vapā́)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative वपा
vapā́		 वपे
vapé		 वपाः
vapā́ḥ
Vocative वपे
vápe		 वपे
vápe		 वपाः
vápāḥ
Accusative वपाम्
vapā́m		 वपे
vapé		 वपाः
vapā́ḥ
Instrumental वपया / वपा¹
vapáyā / vapā́¹		 वपाभ्याम्
vapā́bhyām		 वपाभिः
vapā́bhiḥ
Dative वपायै
vapā́yai		 वपाभ्याम्
vapā́bhyām		 वपाभ्यः
vapā́bhyaḥ
Ablative वपायाः / वपायै²
vapā́yāḥ / vapā́yai²		 वपाभ्याम्
vapā́bhyām		 वपाभ्यः
vapā́bhyaḥ
Genitive वपायाः / वपायै²
vapā́yāḥ / vapā́yai²		 वपयोः
vapáyoḥ		 वपानाम्
vapā́nām
Locative वपायाम्
vapā́yām		 वपयोः
vapáyoḥ		 वपासु
vapā́su
Notes
  • ¹Vedic
  • ²Brāhmaṇas

References
  • Monier Williams (1899) “वपा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 919/3.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 504-5
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 144-5
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