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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *kwh₂et- (to boil, foam). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic квасъ (kvasŭ, leaven; sour drink), Latin cāseus (cheese).

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Noun edit

क्वथन (kváthana) stemn

  1. boiling
  2. decocting

References edit

  • क्वथन” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 139, column 1.
  • Monier Williams (1899) “Kvathana”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 324, column 3.