-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 (-pa)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	-पः -paḥ	-पौ / -पा¹ -pau / -pā¹	-पाः / -पासः¹ -pāḥ / -pāsaḥ¹
Vocative	-प -pa	-पौ / -पा¹ -pau / -pā¹	-पाः / -पासः¹ -pāḥ / -pāsaḥ¹
Accusative	-पम् -pam	-पौ / -पा¹ -pau / -pā¹	-पान् -pān
Instrumental	-पेन -pena	-पाभ्याम् -pābhyām	-पैः / -पेभिः¹ -paiḥ / -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
Notes	¹Vedic

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms suffixed with -प