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भाष्

Sanskrit

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, say”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *bàjati (“to tell”), *bajьka (“fable”); Ancient Greek φημί (phēmí, “say”), φᾰ́σῐς (phásis, “utterance”), Latin fātum (“spoken”) whence fate, Latin fābula whence fable, Latin fateor, fassus whence confess, Latin fāma (“fame”); English ban.

    Pronunciation

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    Root

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    भाष् • (bhāṣ)

    1. to speak, talk, say, tell
    2. to announce, declare
    3. to call, name, describe

    Derived terms

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    References

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    • Monier Williams (1899) “भाष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0755.
    • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “भाष्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
    • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 110
    • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “भाष्”, 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
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