पायस

Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पायस (pāyasa).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pɑː.jəs/, [päː.jɐs]

Noun

पायस • (pāyas) m (Urdu spelling پایس)

1. emulsion
2. kheer

   Synonym: खीर (khīr)

Declension

Declension of पायस (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	पायस pāyas	पायस pāyas
oblique	पायस pāyas	पायसों pāyasõ
vocative	पायस pāyas	पायसो pāyaso

Sanskrit

Etymology

Vṛddhi derivative of पयस् (páyas, “milk”).

Adjective

पायस • (pāyasa) stem

1. made of milk

Noun

पायस • (pāyasa) stem, n

1. milk

   Synonyms: निर्यास (niryāsa), क्षीर (kṣīra), दुग्ध (dugdha)

   • raghuvaṃśa 2.63:

     मां केवालानां पायसां प्रसूतिम प्रसन्नां कामदुघां अवेहि न

     māṃ kevālānāṃ pāyasāṃ prasūtima prasannāṃ kāmadughāṃ avehi na

     As a mere (cow) producer or milk you ought to know me not, but as a granter of any desired thing if (I am) being pleased

2. food prepared with milk, especially boiled rice
3. the resin of the Pinus Longifolia
4. juice or sap in general

   Synonym: रस (rasa)

Derived terms

• पायसापूप (pāyasāpūpa, “a type of cake made with milk and rice”)
• पायसिक (pāyasika, “fond of boiled milk”)
• पायसापिण्डारक (pāyasāpiṇḍāraka, “a monk or mendicant surviving on milk-derived products such as boiled rice”)

Descendants

• Helu Prakrit:
  • Sinhalese: පයස් (payas)
• Khasa Prakrit:
  • Garhwali: पाइस (pāis)
• Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀧𑀸𑀬𑀲 (pāyasa)
  • Assamese: পাহ (pah)
    • ⇒ Assamese: পাহ-ভাত (pah-bhat)
• Pali: pāyasa, pāyāsa
• → Assamese: পায়স (payox) (learned)
• → Bengali: পায়স (paẏoś), পায়েস (paẏes) (learned)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: पायस (pāyas) (learned)

  Urdu: پایس (pāyas) (learned)

• → Kannada: ಪಾಯಸ (pāyasa) (learned)
• → Konkani: पायस (pāyas) (learned)
• → Malayalam: പായസം (pāyasaṁ) (learned)
• → Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠄꠡ (faeś) (learned) (probably through Bengali)
• → Tamil: பாயசம் (pāyacam) (learned)
• → Telugu: పాయసం (pāyasaṁ) (learned)

See also

• पीयते (pīyate)
• पयस (payasa)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “पायस”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 619.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pāyasa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press