हेमन्त

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हेमन्त m

  1. Devanagari script form of hemanta (winter)

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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰaymantás, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeyméns, from *ǵʰey- (winter). Cognate with Latin hībernum (winter), Ancient Greek χεῖμᾰ (kheîma), Persian زمستان (zemestân), Old Armenian ձմեռն (jmeṙn), Avestan 𐬰𐬌𐬌𐬃 (ziiā̊, winter).

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हेमन्त (hemantá) stemm

  1. winter, the cold season
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.161.4:
      शतं जीव शरदो वर्धमानः शतं हेमन्ताञ्छतमु वसन्तान्।
      śataṃ jīva śarado vardhamānaḥ śataṃ hemantāñchatamu vasantān.
      Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.

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Masculine a-stem declension of हेमन्त (hemantá)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative हेमन्तः
hemantáḥ
हेमन्तौ / हेमन्ता¹
hemantaú / hemantā́¹
हेमन्ताः / हेमन्तासः¹
hemantā́ḥ / hemantā́saḥ¹
Vocative हेमन्त
hémanta
हेमन्तौ / हेमन्ता¹
hémantau / hémantā¹
हेमन्ताः / हेमन्तासः¹
hémantāḥ / hémantāsaḥ¹
Accusative हेमन्तम्
hemantám
हेमन्तौ / हेमन्ता¹
hemantaú / hemantā́¹
हेमन्तान्
hemantā́n
Instrumental हेमन्तेन
hemanténa
हेमन्ताभ्याम्
hemantā́bhyām
हेमन्तैः / हेमन्तेभिः¹
hemantaíḥ / hemantébhiḥ¹
Dative हेमन्ताय
hemantā́ya
हेमन्ताभ्याम्
hemantā́bhyām
हेमन्तेभ्यः
hemantébhyaḥ
Ablative हेमन्तात्
hemantā́t
हेमन्ताभ्याम्
hemantā́bhyām
हेमन्तेभ्यः
hemantébhyaḥ
Genitive हेमन्तस्य
hemantásya
हेमन्तयोः
hemantáyoḥ
हेमन्तानाम्
hemantā́nām
Locative हेमन्ते
hemanté
हेमन्तयोः
hemantáyoḥ
हेमन्तेषु
hemantéṣu
Notes
  • ¹Vedic

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “हेमन्त”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1304/1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 819-20