स्फोट

Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्फोट (sphoṭa). Doublet of फोड़ा (phoṛā).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /spʰoːʈ/

Noun

स्फोट • (sphoṭ) m (rare, formal)

  1. bursting, explosion
  2. a swelling, tumour, boil
  3. crackling, crash, roar

Declension

Further reading

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From the root स्फुट् (sphuṭ), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)bʰel- or *(s)pel- (to split) with a *-t- extension. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, to cleave, split), Old English speld (splinter), English split.

Pronunciation

Noun

स्फोट • (sphoṭa) stem, m

  1. bursting, explosion
  2. a swelling, tumour, boil
  3. crackling, crash, roar
  4. (philosophy) sound (conceived as eternal, indivisible, and creative)

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of स्फोट (sphoṭa)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative स्फोटः
sphoṭaḥ
स्फोटौ / स्फोटा¹
sphoṭau / sphoṭā¹
स्फोटाः / स्फोटासः¹
sphoṭāḥ / sphoṭāsaḥ¹
Vocative स्फोट
sphoṭa
स्फोटौ / स्फोटा¹
sphoṭau / sphoṭā¹
स्फोटाः / स्फोटासः¹
sphoṭāḥ / sphoṭāsaḥ¹
Accusative स्फोटम्
sphoṭam
स्फोटौ / स्फोटा¹
sphoṭau / sphoṭā¹
स्फोटान्
sphoṭān
Instrumental स्फोटेन
sphoṭena
स्फोटाभ्याम्
sphoṭābhyām
स्फोटैः / स्फोटेभिः¹
sphoṭaiḥ / sphoṭebhiḥ¹
Dative स्फोटाय
sphoṭāya
स्फोटाभ्याम्
sphoṭābhyām
स्फोटेभ्यः
sphoṭebhyaḥ
Ablative स्फोटात्
sphoṭāt
स्फोटाभ्याम्
sphoṭābhyām
स्फोटेभ्यः
sphoṭebhyaḥ
Genitive स्फोटस्य
sphoṭasya
स्फोटयोः
sphoṭayoḥ
स्फोटानाम्
sphoṭānām
Locative स्फोटे
sphoṭe
स्फोटयोः
sphoṭayoḥ
स्फोटेषु
sphoṭeṣu
Notes
  • ¹Vedic

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “स्फोट”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1270.
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्फोट”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “स्फोट”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sphōṭa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
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