यूषन्

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *yuHs-ḗn, from *yúHs (“soup, broth”). Related to यूष (yūṣa) and यूस् (yūs); see those entries for cognates.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /juː.ʂɐ́n/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.ʂɐn̪/

Noun

यूषन् • (yūṣán) stem, ?

1. soup, broth
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.162.13:

     यन्नीक्षणं मांस्पचन्या उखाया या पात्राणि यूष्ण आसेचनानि । ऊष्मण्यापिधाना चरूणामङ्काः सूनाः परि भूषन्त्यश्वम् ॥

     yannīkṣaṇaṃ māṃspacanyā ukhāyā yā pātrāṇi yūṣṇa āsecanāni. ūṣmaṇyāpidhānā carūṇāmaṅkāḥ sūnāḥ pari bhūṣantyaśvam.

     The ladle of the meat-cooking cauldron, the vessels out of which the broth is sprinkled, The warming-pots, the covers of the dishes, hooks, carving-boards,-all these attend the Charger.

   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā) VI.3.11:

     यूषन्न् अवधाय प्रोर्णोति रसो वा एष पशूनां यद् यू रसम् एव पशुषु दधाति

     yūṣánn avadhā́ya prórṇoti ráso vā́ eṣá paśūnā́ṃ yád yū́ rásam evá paśúṣu dadhāti.

     He covers (the cattle) after putting (the fat) on the soup; the soup [represents] the sap of cattle; thus he bestows sap upon cattle.

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “यूषन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 856.