शश
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- শশ (Assamese script)
- ᬰᬰ (Balinese script)
- শশ (Bengali script)
- 𑰫𑰫 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀰𑀰 (Brahmi script)
- ၐၐ (Burmese script)
- શશ (Gujarati script)
- ਸ਼ਸ਼ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌶𑌶 (Grantha script)
- ꦯꦯ (Javanese script)
- 𑂬𑂬 (Kaithi script)
- ಶಶ (Kannada script)
- ឝឝ (Khmer script)
- ຨຨ (Lao script)
- ശശ (Malayalam script)
- ᡧᠠᡧᠠ (Manchu script)
- 𑘫𑘫 (Modi script)
- ᠱᠠᠱᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧋𑧋 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐱𑐱 (Newa script)
- ଶଶ (Odia script)
- ꢯꢯ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆯𑆯 (Sharada script)
- 𑖫𑖫 (Siddham script)
- ශශ (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩿𑩿 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚧𑚧 (Takri script)
- ஶஶ (Tamil script)
- శశ (Telugu script)
- ศศ (Thai script)
- ཤ་ཤ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒬𑒬 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨮𑨮 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
From earlier *शस (śasa) (by assimilation of the second sibilant to the first), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćasás (“hare”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂s- (“grey, hare”). Cognate with English hare, Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”), Welsh ceinach (“hare, rabbit”), and Latin cānus (“white”).
Noun
शश • (śaśá) stem, m
- hare, rabbit
- antelope
- lunar maria (which are thought to resemble a hare or rabbit)
- a kind of meteor
- name of a man born under a particular constellation
- a man of mild character and easily led (one of the four classes into which men are divided by erotic writers, the other three being अश्व (aśva), मृग (mṛga) and वृषन् (vṛṣan))
- the लोध्र (lodhra) tree, Symplocos racemosa
- gum-myrrh
- name of a part of जम्बुद्वीप (Jambu-dvīpa)
Declension
| Masculine a-stem declension of शश (śaśá) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | शशः śaśáḥ |
शशौ / शशा¹ śaśaú / śaśā́¹ |
शशाः / शशासः¹ śaśā́ḥ / śaśā́saḥ¹ |
| Vocative | शश śáśa |
शशौ / शशा¹ śáśau / śáśā¹ |
शशाः / शशासः¹ śáśāḥ / śáśāsaḥ¹ |
| Accusative | शशम् śaśám |
शशौ / शशा¹ śaśaú / śaśā́¹ |
शशान् śaśā́n |
| Instrumental | शशेन śaśéna |
शशाभ्याम् śaśā́bhyām |
शशैः / शशेभिः¹ śaśaíḥ / śaśébhiḥ¹ |
| Dative | शशाय śaśā́ya |
शशाभ्याम् śaśā́bhyām |
शशेभ्यः śaśébhyaḥ |
| Ablative | शशात् śaśā́t |
शशाभ्याम् śaśā́bhyām |
शशेभ्यः śaśébhyaḥ |
| Genitive | शशस्य śaśásya |
शशयोः śaśáyoḥ |
शशानाम् śaśā́nām |
| Locative | शशे śaśé |
शशयोः śaśáyoḥ |
शशेषु śaśéṣu |
| Notes |
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Derived terms
- शशक (śaśaka)
- शशी (śaśī, “moon”)
- शशाङ्क (śaśāṅka, “moon”)
Descendants
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “शश”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1060/1.
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