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ūṣmāṇaḥ

m

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Where it lives

  • Chandogya Upanisad 4 · 0.85/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. üsmän-

üsmän- m. Dampf, Hitze, Ausdünstung (AV +); üsmanya- dampfend (RV 1,162,13). - Mi., ni., Tu 2441 (mit Verweisen). - Problematisch. Zusammenhang mit OS (an das sich die jungere Form usman- [Mn +] angeschlossen hat) ist lautlich kaum möglich; nicht überzeugend Wennerberg 1 39 Anm. 3. Der Hinweis auf gr dernöc in AiGr IL 1,12 läßt us? als Huh,-s" (- "mueh- = VÄ! 'wehen’) interpretieren. - Noch anders Tu, a a.0 UH … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. üsmän-, p. 301]

2. uṣman

uṣman m. heat, ardour, steam, Mn. ; MBh. ; Suśr. &c. (in many cases, where the initial u is combined with a preceding a, not to be distinguished from ūṣman, q.v. )

3. ūṣman

ūṣman ā, m. (√ uṣ cf. uṣman), heat, glow, ardour, hot vapour, steam, vapour, AV. vi, 18, 3 ; VS. ; ŚBr. ; KātyŚr. ; BhP. (also figuratively said of passion or of money &c.)

4. ūṣman

(in Gr. ) N. applied to certain sounds ( viz. the three sibilants, h, Visarga , Jihvāmūlīya , Upadhmānīya , and Anusvāra ), RPrāt. 11 , &c.; APrāt. ; VPrāt. , Kāś. &c. (the TPrāt. omits Visarga and Anusvāra ).

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Where it came from

  • Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. usman (vol. 3, scan p. 71; entry #900).

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.