आपीन
Sanskrit
[edit]Etymology
[edit]आ- (ā-) + पीन (pīna), ultimately from the root पी (pī, “swelling, swollen, full, round, thick”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]आपीन • (āpīna) stem, n
- an udder
- c. 400 CE, Kālidāsa, Raghuvaṃśa 2.18:
- आपीनभारोद्वहनप्रयत्नाद्गृष्टिर्गुरुत्वाद्वपुषो नरेन्द्रः।
उभावलंचक्रतुरञ्चिताभ्यां तपोवनावृत्तिपथं गताभ्याम्- āpīnabhārodvahanaprayatnādgṛṣṭirgurutvādvapuṣo narendraḥ.
ubhāvalaṃcakraturañcitābhyāṃ tapovanāvṛttipathaṃ gatābhyām - despite being young, the cow strives carrying (already) weighty udders and (likewise does) the king (ie, Dilipa),
agait with his ponderous physique, both in fain tableau gracefully returning from the woods to the hermitage
- āpīnabhārodvahanaprayatnādgṛṣṭirgurutvādvapuṣo narendraḥ.
- आपीनभारोद्वहनप्रयत्नाद्गृष्टिर्गुरुत्वाद्वपुषो नरेन्द्रः।
Declension
[edit]| Neuter a-stem declension of आपीन (āpīna) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | आपीनम् āpīnam |
आपीने āpīne |
आपीनानि / आपीना¹ āpīnāni / āpīnā¹ |
| Vocative | आपीन āpīna |
आपीने āpīne |
आपीनानि / आपीना¹ āpīnāni / āpīnā¹ |
| Accusative | आपीनम् āpīnam |
आपीने āpīne |
आपीनानि / आपीना¹ āpīnāni / āpīnā¹ |
| Instrumental | आपीनेन āpīnena |
आपीनाभ्याम् āpīnābhyām |
आपीनैः / आपीनेभिः¹ āpīnaiḥ / āpīnebhiḥ¹ |
| Dative | आपीनाय āpīnāya |
आपीनाभ्याम् āpīnābhyām |
आपीनेभ्यः āpīnebhyaḥ |
| Ablative | आपीनात् āpīnāt |
आपीनाभ्याम् āpīnābhyām |
आपीनेभ्यः āpīnebhyaḥ |
| Genitive | आपीनस्य āpīnasya |
आपीनयोः āpīnayoḥ |
आपीनानाम् āpīnānām |
| Locative | आपीने āpīne |
आपीनयोः āpīnayoḥ |
आपीनेषु āpīneṣu |
| Notes |
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See also
[edit]- पीनककुद्मत् (pīnakakudmat, “whoever/whatever has a fat hump”)
- पीनत्व (pīnatva, “fatness, corpulency, compactness, denseness”)
- पीनवक्षस् (pīnavakṣas, “full-breasted, large-chested”)
- पीनस्तन (pīnastana, “the full breast (of a woman)”)
References
[edit]- Monier Williams (1899) “आपीन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 144.