वसन्त

Hindi

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ʋə.sənt̪/, [ʋɐ.sɐ̃n̪t̪]

Noun

वसन्त • (vasant) m (Urdu spelling وسنت)

  1. Alternative spelling of वसंत (vasant)

Declension

Nepali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वसन्त (vasanta).

Pronunciation

Noun

वसन्त • (vasanta)

  1. spring (season)

See also

Seasons in Nepali · ऋतु (r̥tu) (layout · text) · category
बसन्त (basanta), वसन्त (vasanta, spring) गर्मी (garmī),
ग्रीष्म (grīṣma, summer)
शरद (śarad, autumn) हिउँद (hiũd),
शिशिर (śiśira, winter)

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

वसन्त m

  1. Devanagari script form of vasanta

Declension

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *wasantás, from Proto-Indo-European *wesn̥-tó-s, from *wósr̥ (spring). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἔαρ (éar), Latin vēr, Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬀𐬭 (vaŋhar), Persian بهار (bahâr), Old Norse vár, Russian весна́ (vesná).

Pronunciation

Noun

वसन्त • (vasantá) stem, m

  1. "brilliant (season)"; the spring
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.161.4:
      शतं जीव शरदो वर्धमानः शतं हेमन्ताञ्छतमु वसन्तान्
      śataṃ jīva śarado vardhamānaḥ śataṃ hemantāñchatamu vasantān.
      Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.
  2. a particular metre (4 times ˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ˘ ) (Col.)
  3. name of a man (Rājat.)

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of वसन्त (vasantá)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative वसन्तः
vasantáḥ
वसन्तौ / वसन्ता¹
vasantaú / vasantā́¹
वसन्ताः / वसन्तासः¹
vasantā́ḥ / vasantā́saḥ¹
Vocative वसन्त
vásanta
वसन्तौ / वसन्ता¹
vásantau / vásantā¹
वसन्ताः / वसन्तासः¹
vásantāḥ / vásantāsaḥ¹
Accusative वसन्तम्
vasantám
वसन्तौ / वसन्ता¹
vasantaú / vasantā́¹
वसन्तान्
vasantā́n
Instrumental वसन्तेन
vasanténa
वसन्ताभ्याम्
vasantā́bhyām
वसन्तैः / वसन्तेभिः¹
vasantaíḥ / vasantébhiḥ¹
Dative वसन्ताय
vasantā́ya
वसन्ताभ्याम्
vasantā́bhyām
वसन्तेभ्यः
vasantébhyaḥ
Ablative वसन्तात्
vasantā́t
वसन्ताभ्याम्
vasantā́bhyām
वसन्तेभ्यः
vasantébhyaḥ
Genitive वसन्तस्य
vasantásya
वसन्तयोः
vasantáyoḥ
वसन्तानाम्
vasantā́nām
Locative वसन्ते
vasanté
वसन्तयोः
vasantáyoḥ
वसन्तेषु
vasantéṣu
Notes
  • ¹Vedic

Descendants

  • Dardic:
    • Kalasha: básond
    • Khowar: بوسون (bosún)
    • Phalura: basaánd
    • Torwali: [script needed] (basān)
    • Shina: بَزونوࣿ/बज़ोनॊ (băzṓnṷ), بَزودوࣿ (băzṓdṷ)
  • Gandhari: 𐨬𐨯𐨎𐨟 (vasaṃta)
  • Prakrit: 𑀯𑀲𑀁𑀢 (vasaṃta)
  • Pali: vasanta
  • Niya Prakrit: 𐨬𐨯𐨎𐨟 (vasaṃta)

Borrowed terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “वसन्त”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0930/1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 533
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.