Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *perd- (to fart (loudly)). Cognate with Ancient Greek πέρδομαι (pérdomai), Lithuanian pérsti, Russian пердеть (perdetʹ), Old English feortan (whence fart).

Pronunciation

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Root

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पर्द् (pard)

  1. to fart

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “पर्द्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0606.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 095
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “पर्द्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016