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हेमन्त m

  1. Devanagari script form of hemanta (winter)

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰaymantás, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeyméns, from *ǵʰey- (winter). Cognate with Latin hībernum (winter), Ancient Greek χεῖμᾰ (kheîmă), Persian زمستان (zemestân), Old Armenian ձմեռն (jmeṙn), Avestan 𐬰𐬌𐬌𐬃 (ziiā̊, winter).

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हेमन्त (hemantá) stemm

  1. winter, the cold season
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.161.4:
      शतं जीव शरदो वर्धमानः शतं हेमन्ताञ् छतम् उ वसन्तान्।
      śataṃ jīva śarado vardhamānaḥ śataṃ hemantāñ chatam u vasantān.
      Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.

Declension

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Masculine a-stem declension of हेमन्त
singular dual plural
nominative हेमन्तः (hemantáḥ) हेमन्तौ (hemantaú)
हेमन्ता¹ (hemantā́¹)
हेमन्ताः (hemantā́ḥ)
हेमन्तासः¹ (hemantā́saḥ¹)
vocative हेमन्त (hémanta) हेमन्तौ (hémantau)
हेमन्ता¹ (hémantā¹)
हेमन्ताः (hémantāḥ)
हेमन्तासः¹ (hémantāsaḥ¹)
accusative हेमन्तम् (hemantám) हेमन्तौ (hemantaú)
हेमन्ता¹ (hemantā́¹)
हेमन्तान् (hemantā́n)
instrumental हेमन्तेन (hemanténa) हेमन्ताभ्याम् (hemantā́bhyām) हेमन्तैः (hemantaíḥ)
हेमन्तेभिः¹ (hemantébhiḥ¹)
dative हेमन्ताय (hemantā́ya) हेमन्ताभ्याम् (hemantā́bhyām) हेमन्तेभ्यः (hemantébhyaḥ)
ablative हेमन्तात् (hemantā́t) हेमन्ताभ्याम् (hemantā́bhyām) हेमन्तेभ्यः (hemantébhyaḥ)
genitive हेमन्तस्य (hemantásya) हेमन्तयोः (hemantáyoḥ) हेमन्तानाम् (hemantā́nām)
locative हेमन्ते (hemanté) हेमन्तयोः (hemantáyoḥ) हेमन्तेषु (hemantéṣu)
  • ¹Vedic

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “हेमन्त”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1304, column 1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 819-20
  • Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “hemantá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 226