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वसन्त

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Hindi

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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वसन्त (vasantm (Urdu spelling وسنت)

  1. Alternative spelling of वसंत (vasant)

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वसन्त (vasanta).

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Noun

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वसन्त (vasanta)

  1. spring (season)

See also

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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

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Noun

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वसन्त m

  1. Devanagari script form of vasanta

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

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    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).

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    Noun

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    वसन्त (vasantá) stemm

    1. "brilliant (season)"; the spring
      • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.161.4:
        श॒तं जी॑व श॒रदो॒ वर्ध॑मानः श॒तं हे॑म॒न्ताञ्छ॒तमु॑ वस॒न्तान्
        श॒तमि॑न्द्रा॒ग्नी स॑वि॒ता बृह॒स्पति॑: श॒तायु॑षा ह॒विषे॒मं पुन॑र्दुः॥
        śatáṃ jīva śarádo várdhamānaḥ śatáṃ hemantā́ñchatámu vasantā́n.
        śatámindrāgnī́ savitā́ bṛ́haspáti: śatā́yuṣā havíṣemáṃ púnarduḥ.
        Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.
        Through hundred-lived oblation Indra, Agni, Brhaspati, Savitā yield him for a hundred!
    2. a particular metre (4 times ˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ˘ ) (Col.)
    3. name of a man (Rājat.)

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    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

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    References

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    • 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]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 533