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मुष्

Sanskrit

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“to steal, take; move”) from *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move”). Cognate with Latin moveō (“move”) whence English move, motion, etc. Connected with Sanskrit मूष (mūṣa, “mouse, i.e., stealer”).

Pronunciation

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Root

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मुष् • (muṣ)

  1. to steal, rob, plunder, carry off
  2. to ravish, captivate

Derived terms

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Sanskrit terms belonging to the root मुष्‎ (0 c, 1 e)
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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “मुष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0827.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मुष्”, 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 123
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मुष्”, 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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