शश

See also: शिशी, शीशा, शीशी, शिशु, and शीश-

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɐ.ɕɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɕɐ.ɕɐ/

Noun

शश • (śaśá) stem, m

1. hare, rabbit
2. antelope
3. lunar maria (which are thought to resemble a hare or rabbit)
4. a kind of meteor
5. name of a man born under a particular constellation
6. 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))
7. the लोध्र (lodhra) tree, Symplocos racemosa
8. gum-myrrh
9. name of a part of जम्बुद्वीप (Jambu-dvīpa)

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of शश

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	शशः (śaśáḥ)	शशौ (śaśaú) शशा¹ (śaśā́¹)	शशाः (śaśā́ḥ) शशासः¹ (śaśā́saḥ¹)
vocative	शश (śáśa)	शशौ (śáśau) शशा¹ (śáśā¹)	शशाः (śáśāḥ) शशासः¹ (śáśāsaḥ¹)
accusative	शशम् (śaśám)	शशौ (śaśaú) शशा¹ (śaśā́¹)	शशान् (śaśā́n)
instrumental	शशेन (śaśéna)	शशाभ्याम् (śaśā́bhyām)	शशैः (śaśaíḥ) शशेभिः¹ (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)

• ¹Vedic

Derived terms

• शशक (śaśaka)
• शशी (śaśī, “moon”)
• शशाङ्क (śaśāṅka, “moon”)

Descendants

• Pali: sasa
• Prakrit:
  • Magadhi Prakrit:
    • Assamese: শহা (xoha)
    • Bengali: শশা (śośa)
  • Helu Prakrit:
    • Sinhalese: සාවා (sāwā), සහාවා (sahāwā), ශශයා (śaśayā), සැසයා (sæsayā), හාවෝ (hāwō)?
  • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀲𑀲 (sasa)
    • Old Marathi: ससा (sasā)
      • Marathi: ससा (sasā)
    • Konkani: सोंसो (souso)
  • Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀲𑀲 (sasa)
    • Gujarati: સસલું (saslũ)
    • Hindi: सस (sas)
    • Punjabi: ਸਹਾ (sahā), ਸਹਿਆ (sahiā)
    • Romani: śośoj
• → Tamil: சசம் (cacam)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “शश”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1060/1.