-प

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• -ᬧ (Balinese script)
• -ပ (Burmese script)
• -प (Devanagari script)
• -ਪ (Gurmukhi script)
• -𑌪 (Grantha script)
• -ꦥ (Javanese script)
• -𑂣 (Kaithi script)
• -ប (Khmer script)
• -ປ (Lao script)
• -പ (Malayalam script)
• -ᢒᠠ (Manchu script)
• -𑘢 (Modi script)
• -ᢒᠠ (Mongolian script)
• -𑧂 (Nandinagari script)
• -𑐥 (Newa script)
• -ପ (Odia script)
• -ꢦ (Saurashtra script)
• -𑆥 (Sharada script)
• -𑖢 (Siddham script)
• -ප (Sinhalese script)
• -𑩰 (Soyombo script)
• -𑚞 (Takri script)
• -ப (Tamil script)
• -ป (Thai script)
• -་པ (Tibetan script)
• -𑨞 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-

Sanskrit पा (pā)

Sanskrit -प (-pa)

From the root पा (pā, “to protect”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /pɐ/

Suffix

-प • (-pa) m

1. protector

   ‎भू (bhū, “land, earth”) + ‎-प (-pa) → ‎भूप (bhūpa, “protector of land, king”)

   ‎गो (go, “cow”) + ‎-प (-pa) → ‎प (pa, “protector of cows, cowherd”)

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of -प

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	-पः (-paḥ)	-पौ (-pau) -पा¹ (-pā¹)	-पाः (-pāḥ) -पासः¹ (-pāsaḥ¹)
vocative	-प (-pa)	-पौ (-pau) -पा¹ (-pā¹)	-पाः (-pāḥ) -पासः¹ (-pāsaḥ¹)
accusative	-पम् (-pam)	-पौ (-pau) -पा¹ (-pā¹)	-पान् (-pān)
instrumental	-पेन (-pena)	-पाभ्याम् (-pābhyām)	-पैः (-paiḥ) -पेभिः¹ (-pebhiḥ¹)
dative	-पाय (-pāya)	-पाभ्याम् (-pābhyām)	-पेभ्यः (-pebhyaḥ)
ablative	-पात् (-pāt)	-पाभ्याम् (-pābhyām)	-पेभ्यः (-pebhyaḥ)
genitive	-पस्य (-pasya)	-पयोः (-payoḥ)	-पानाम् (-pānām)
locative	-पे (-pe)	-पयोः (-payoḥ)	-पेषु (-peṣu)

• ¹Vedic

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms suffixed with -प

गोप