Indian word for water

Water synonyms

What is the another word for water in Marathi?

Definition in Marathi: एक रंगहीन, पारदर्शक, गंधहीन, द्रव जो समुद्र, तलाव, नद्या आणि पाऊस बनवतो आणि जो जिवंत जीवनांच्या द्रवपदार्थांचे आधार आहे.

• liquid.
• H20.
• aquatic.
• weewee.
• aqua pura.
• sea.
• piss.
• pool.

What is meaning of H2O in Marathi?

English to Marathi Meaning :: water. Water : पाणी

What is water in Sanskrit?

Ap (áp-) is the Vedic Sanskrit term for “water”, which in Classical Sanskrit only occurs in the plural āpas (sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, āpa-), whence Hindi āp.

What is rain called in Sanskrit?

Parjanya

What is girl called in Sanskrit?

Translate “girl” into Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) girl (English)

What is Sanskrit word for wife?

What is wife called in Sanskrit

Sanskrit	Transliteration
पत्नी	Patnī
जाया	Jāyā
दारा	Dārā
वधूः	Vadhū

What is boy called in Sanskrit?

Boy Meaning in Sanskrit

1	Boy	बालः Balah
2	Boy	बालकः Balakah
3	Boy	बाला Bala
4	Boy	माणवकः Manvakah
5	Boy	वत्सः Vatsah

What do we call husband in Sanskrit?

IPA: hʌzbəndSanskrit: हज़्बन्ड

How do you say I am in Sanskrit?

Soham or Sohum (सो ऽहम् so ‘ham or so ‘Hum) is a Hindu mantra, meaning “I am She/He/That” in Sanskrit. In Vedic philosophy it means identifying oneself with the universe or ultimate reality.

How do you say son in Sanskrit?

Putra (पुत्र’) means son in Sanskrit.

What is grandson called in Sanskrit?

संस्कृतम् Sanskrit meaning of ‘grandson’ grandson = पौत्र | pautr.

What is the name of Putra?

Putra (Sanskrit: पुत्र, meaning son) is a Malay and Indonesian name. Notable people with the name include: Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, whose name was used for the new city of Putrajaya.

What is Sun called in Sanskrit?

Surya (/ˈsuːrjə/; Sanskrit: सूर्य, IAST: Sūrya) is a Sanskrit word that means the Sun.

Who is the sun god in Hinduism?

Surya

Who is the daughter of Sun?

Yamuna

Who is Sun’s wife?

He got married to Sanjana (sometimes called Saranya), the daughter of Vishwakarma. But his wife could not tolerate the heat coming from him and went back to her father’s home after creating her shadow called Chaya to take her place.

Who is the god of moon?

Selene

Why is Yamuna black?

Foam floating on the Yamuna River, the main source of water in the Indian capital, has turned the river black and reduced it to a drain.

Who is the Hindu god of death?

Yama

Which is the longest river in India?

Indus

Why did Shani killed Bhadra?

With Sangya instigating Bhadra to go against Mahadev and other devs, Shani also sees Bhadra in bad light. Above all, with an astra being created by Mahadev for Bhadra’s killing, Shani is actually entrusted the task of killing Bhadra to save mankind.

Who killed Bhadra Devi?

Bhadrakali is primarily worshipped in 4 forms: Darukajit (as the killer of the demon Darika), Dakshajit (as the killer of Daksha), Rurujit (as the slayer of the demon Ruru) and as Mahishajit (as She who killed Mahishasura)….Bhadrakali.

Bhadrakaali
Texts	Kalika Puran, Shiva Puran
Consort	Virabhadra (form of Shiva)

Who killed Shani?

Pippalada defeated Shani. Shani to save his life promised that he will never trouble anyone below 12 years of age.

How did Bhadra die?

Possible Death If the player chose to make Sabal the leader, Bhadra is made the Tarun Matara in the ceremony of purification in blood, by slaughtering Amita’s followers in front of her. She does not die as a result of this ending.

Does Amita kill Bhadra?

It’s implied that Amita killed Bhadra. Presumably she despawns after the cutscene. They probably don’t want to let you kill kids, but don’t want to break immersion by locking your trigger.

Is Bhadra good or bad?

Bhadra is considered daughter of Sun (Surya) and sister of Saturn(Shani), is ugly and she does not help or do good for anybody. So the period during Bhadra kal is not auspicious and no one will help or do good for any one. One should avoid all auspicious events, ceremonies or important works.

Is it better to kill Amita or Sabal?

Amita is the leader of the Golden Path You can shoot Sabal or spare his life. Amita will ask you to kill Sabal, who wants the division of the Golden Path. Head to the place shown on the map and locate Sabal on the top of the stairs in a small hut. You can also spare Sabal’s life and you will never see him again.

By S Swaminathan

The Sanskrit language is the oldest, most systematic language that has survived the longest period through history. It is called Deva Bhasa-Language of the Gods. It is full of wonders, puzzles, riddles and miracles. It has got an ocean of treasures for anyone interested in any subject under the sun. No one has listed all the books in this language, because it is impossible to do so. This was the richest language in the ancient world. Even before Homer started writing his Iliad and Odyssey in 800 BC, Sanskrit had copious literature in the form of Vedic Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad written at the time of Homer, lists more than 60 generations of teachers! It means Hindus had proper schools for thousands of years even before others thought of writing books! No wonder still Mahabharata is the largest epic in the world with 100,000 couplets.

It has scored several firsts. First grammar book in the world: Ashtadyaye of Panini, First sex manual in the world: Kamasutra of Vatsyayana, First philosophical work: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, First Story Collection in the world: Somadeva’s Katha Sarit Sagara, First religious book in the world Rig Veda and First Dance manual in the world Bharata’s Natya Sastra and First Dictionary of Synonyms Amarkosa. We can go on adding medical, aeroplane manuals etc. No Gilgamesh can even come nearer to Sanskrit literature. When other parts of the world dealt only with religion we started writing secular books.

Sanskrit has the power of expressing all types of thoughts in their appropriate terminology- from mythology to literature, science to philosophy, poetry to prosody, astronomy to anatomy, as well as genetics, mathematics and cosmology.

An amazing wealth of words and synonyms gives a great versatility to expression of power. With 65 words for earth, 70 words for water,15 words for gold,122 words for the verb “to go”, imagine its vastness!!

The seventy words for water multiply into 280 words with prefixes for specific descriptions of rainfall (dharma, karakam, thousaram, haimam) etc.

The Sanskrit speakers belong to India. Their civilization originated on the banks of Ganga, Sindhu, Saraswati (which disappeared 3000 years ago) and Yamuna. All these rivers were mentioned in Rig Veda, the oldest book in the world. They were so obsessed with water, they used it in all their ceremonies from birth to death. They used it to donate money or lands.They used it to give boons or curses. They used it in their weddings (Kanya Dhanam). This shows very clearly that they did not come from arid deserts or snowy regions. Without water a Hindu can’t do any ceremony.

Look at the  synonyms of water given below:

Amrutam ,Ambhaha, Arnaha,Apaha, Bhuvanam,Vanam,Kabandham, Kapandham,Udakam,Paathaha,Pushkaram,Savaram,Toyam, Dakam, Kambalam,Syandanam,Sadanam,Ira,Ambu,Kam,Jadaha,Somam,Vyoma,Naram,Kaharam,Saraha,Neeram,Udam,Saram,Rutam,Vaaha,Vaari,Salilam, Kamalam,Payaha,Keelaalam,Salam,Uurjam,Ghrutam,Vaajam,Sarilam, Jadam,Sambhaha,Andham,Kusham,Karburam,Ksheeram,Taamaram,Hriveram,

Sanchalam,Sambaram,Shambaram,Sambalam,Ghanarasaha,Jalapeetham,Jalam,Chandrorasam,Gokolanam,Sarvatomukham,Meghapushpam,Abhrapushpam,

Peeppalam,Kaandam,Krupeetam, Jeevanam, Komalam, Ghanisaasam, Krupperam, Repaalam, Akkam (colloquial in Brahmin families, might have given the word Aqua)

I have explained in another article that the word Neer/ water is not of Tamil origin ,because it is found in Greek as Nereids (water nymphs=Narayana of Hindu literature).

Compiled by S Swaminathan from various sources. For more Sanskrit Wonders read my blogs or contact swami_48@yahoo.com or Swaminathan.santanam@gmail.com

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ap (áp-) is the Vedic Sanskrit term for «water», which in Classical Sanskrit only occurs in the plural āpas (sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, āpa-), whence Hindi āp. The term is from PIE h_xap «water».^{[note 1]}
The Indo-Iranian word also survives as the Persian word for water, āb, e.g. in Punjab (from panj-āb «five waters»). In archaic ablauting contractions, the laryngeal of the PIE root remains visible in Vedic Sanskrit, e.g. pratīpa- «against the current», from *proti-h_xp-o-. In Tamil, Appu (Tamil form of «Ap») means water, and has references in poetry.

In the Rigveda, several hymns are dedicated to «the waters» (āpas): 7.49, 10.9, 10.30, 10.137. In the oldest of these, 7.49, the waters are connected with the drought of Indra. Agni, the god of fire, has a close association with water and is often referred to as Apām Napāt «offspring of the waters». In Vedic astrology, the female deity Apah is the presiding deity of the Purva Ashadha asterism, meaning «first of the aṣāḍhā», with aṣāḍhā «the invincible one» being the name of the greater constellation.

In Hindu philosophy, the term refers to water as an element, one of the Panchamahabhuta, or «five great elements». In Hinduism, it is also the name of the deva Varuna a personification of water, one of the Vasus in most later Puranic lists.

Notes[edit]

See also[edit]

• Varuna, the god of water
• Samudra, the sea god
• Abzu, the Sumerian primeval waters
• Aban or āpō, the Avestan concept of «the waters»
• Doab, spit of land lying between two confluent rivers
• Old European hydronymy
• Rigvedic rivers
• Sea and river deity

The striking similarities in Sanskrit and Russian indicate that during some period of history, the speakers of the two languages lived close together.

When was the last time you had a shot of vodka? Well, next time you have one, remember that this Russian word has its origins in the Vedic Sanskrit word for water – udaka.

The classical Sanskrit word for water is jal and is familiar to most Indians. But the fact that the Russian word for water voda is closer to the Vedic Sanskrit word points to the close – and ancient – kinship between the two languages.

While it is commonly known that both languages belong to the Indo-European family of languages, most people believe the relation between Russian and Sanskrit is as distant as that between Persian and Sanskrit or Latin and Sanskrit. Linguist and author W.R. Rishi writes in his book ‘India & Russia: Linguistic & Cultural Affinity’ that Russian and Sanskrit share a deeper connection.

According to Rishi, the relation between these two languages is very close and correspondence between these two languages is so minute that it cannot be attributed to mere chance. “The facts…lead us to conclude that during some period of history the speakers of Sanskrit and Russian lived close together.”

Rishi points to another feature of the Indo-European languages – the power to form compounds of various words. Such compounds have been carried on from Indo-European to Greek, Sanskrit and Old Church Slavonic.

The origin of the Russian word gorod (Old Slavonic grad) meaning ‘city’ can also be traced. In ancient Russia and in India the cities were built to serve as forts for protection and defence against aggression from an enemy. The corresponding word in Hindi is gadh which means ‘fort’. In modern Russian the suffix grad and in modern Hindi the suffix gadh are used to form names of cities: such as Leningrad (the city of Lenin), Peterograd (the city of Peter) and Bahadurgarh (the city of the brave).

The two languages have two broad similarities. One, Russian is the only European language that shares a strong common grammatical base with Sanskrit.

Secondly, both Russian and Sanskrit are pleasing to the ear. The very name ‘Sanskrit’ means carefully constructed, systematically formed, polished and refined. Colonial era linguist William Jones wrote: “Sanskrit language is of a wonder structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.”

Admirers of Russian are equally liberal with their praise. In a lecture at London University in March 1937, philologist and linguist N.B. Japson said: “It is nevertheless a matter of common experience that a person completely ignorant of Russian, who for the first time hears the language spoken by a native, will voluntarily exclaim: “Why, how melodious Russian sounds.” Novelist Ivan Turgenev wrote: “But it is impossible to believe that a language was not given to a great people.”

Linguist S. Zharnikova writes in Science & Life: “There are many Russian names and words in Russian the origin of which can easily be traced with the help of the Sanskrit language. For example, it is linguistically possible to find traces of the name of the Russian river Volga. Herodotus calls this river by the name of Oaros which can be best explained with the help of the purely Sanskrit word var meaning water.”

What explains the similarities? Vedic Sanskrit was spoken as late as 300 BCE but its antiquity may stretch back thousands of years from that date. Russian may either be the result of ancient Indians taking their language and culture from the banks of the Saraswati river to the banks of the Ob. The discovery of Shiva statues in Central Asia and Russia points to the spread of Hindu culture far beyond the Indian heartland.

There is the other conjecture that Vedic Sanskrit was introduced to India by blond Aryans who originated from southern Russia. This idea is popular with Europeans, including Russians, despite clear evidence that the current belief in an Aryan invasion of India was the result of a body of lies developed by English and German scholars.

While DNA evidence is gradually chipping away at the notion that Aryans brought civilisation to India, scholars such as Shrikant Talageri have analysed the Vedic texts and showed how the older books talk about places in eastern India whereas the later ones provide descriptions of the geography of northwestern India. This can only mean one thing: the ancient Indians moved into Central Asia and perhaps then on to Europe.

While it may take decades to settle the issue one way or the other, it is a fact that Vedic Hindu civilisation was spread over a great area. According to Bulgarian linguist Vladimir Georgiev, geographical names are the most important source for determining how a group of people acquire their ethnicity. This can originate through a process of self-identification or it could be the result of outside identification.

Georgiev says the most stable – or longstanding – names are that of rivers. “But in order to preserve the names it is necessary to maintain the continuity of the population, transmitting these names from generation to generation. Otherwise, new people may come and give it their own name,” he says.

Georgiev illustrates that in 1927 a detachment of geologists «discovered» the highest mountain in the Urals. The mountain was called Narada by the local population, and interestingly the ancient Indian epics describe the great sage Narada as living in the north. But since it was the 10^th anniversary of the October Revolution, the geologists decided to mark the event and rename the mountain as Narodnoy – or People. And that’s what it is now called in all geographic references and on all maps.

Luckily, many other words remain unchanged. Russian scientist and academician AI Sobolewski provides a list of Russian water bodies with Sanskrit names. In his article ‘The Names of the Rivers and Lakes of the Russian North’, he gives the names of the following rivers and lakes: Vaja (from vaja — strength), Valga (from Valgu — simple), Ira (a refreshing drink), Karak (karaka — water jar), Cala (black), Lala (lal — play), Padma (lotus), Punk (silt), Sagara (ocean), Sarah (sara — juice), Sukhona (suhana — easy) and Harina (goose).

The uncanny similarities between Sanskrit and Russian clearly indicate a close kinship between the two nations in the distant past. That could explain why Indians and Russians get along so easily compared with any other nation. For, both nations are sisters under the skin. As the science of language and DNA studies progress, more secrets will tumble out, providing us a better picture of the past.

NO MERE CHANCE

Russian	Sanskrit	English
Naš	Nas	Ours
Svoi	Sva	One’s own
Ty	Tvam	Thou
Tebya	Tva	Thou
Brov	Bhuru	Brow
Dever	Dever	Brother in law
Govorit	Gavati	To speak
Grabit’	Grabhati	To seize, loot
Griva	Griva	Neck
Krov	Kravya	Blood
Myaso	Mansa	Flesh
Zhizn’	Jivana	Life
Nosorog	Nasasringa	Rhinoceros
Okhotnik	Akhetika	Hunter
Nebo	Nabhas	Sky
Veter	Vata	Wind
Gora	Giri	Mountain
Bog	Bhaga	God
Pochitaniye	Pujan	Worship
Noch	Nakta	Night
Ogon	Agni	Fire
Dver	Dvara	Door
Soyuz	Samyoga	Union

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Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink

So goes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (well, not really), referring to the irony of how we cannot drink water from the ocean. And such is the situation in which Maldivians find themselves; surrounded by the substance which keeps them alive, but unable to consume it.

And because Ramadan is leaving everyone extra thirsty, I decided to write this post about water.

Let’s begin.

The English word water comes from the Old English wæter, which comes from the Proto-Germanic *watar. From this word, we get several Germanic cognates:

• Danish: vand
• Dutch: water
• German: wasser
• Frisian: wetter
• Icelandic: vatn
• Norwegian: vann
• Swedish: vatten

The Proto-Germanic word comes from the Proto-Indo-European *wod-or, the root of which is *wed.

Now things get interesting:

Greek

*Wed is the source of the Greek word ύδωρ (ýdor – or húdōr in Ancient Greek). This word came into English in the form of the prefix hydro-, giving us words like hydrogen and hydraulic, which literally mean “water producing” and “water pipe” respectively.

So it turns out water and hydro- are etymological twins, which you wouldn’t immediately guess just by looking at the words.

But wait, that’s not all.

Slavic

The Russian word for “water” which came from *wed is вода (voda). And it’s the same for other Slavic languages:

• Czech, Croatian, Slovenian, Slovak: voda
• Polish: woda
• Ukrainian: Вода (voda)

The addition of a diminutive suffix to the Russian word gives us водка (vodka), which literally means “little water”.

Latin

It turns out that the root *wed also had the nasalised form *unda. This form of the word managed to make it into Latin, with the original meaning of “water” changed into “wave”. See the other Romance language cognates:

• French: onde
• Italian, Portuguese, Spanish: onda
• Romanian: undă

This word was also borrowed into English in various forms. A surprising one is the word surround where the -ound comes from the Latin unda. The word literally means “overflow” and has nothing to do with the word round as you would first think. With this meaning in mind, it looks like Maldives is “surrounded” by water in more ways than one. Other English words based on the Latin word include inundate, redundant, and undulate, which mean “overflow”, “be over-full”, and “move in waves” respectively.

Sanskrit/Dhivehi

*Wed came into Sanskrit in the form उद्र (udra), which still means “water”. The Dhivehi descendant of this word is އުދަ (udha) which means “large/tidal wave”. It is possible that this is also related to އުދަރެސް (udhares), which means “horizon” (“where the ocean meets the sky”).

That was one of the really surprising things I found – that there is a Dhivehi cognate for the word water.

Yet there is still more.

Sanskrit/English

Another meaning of उद्र (udra) is “aquatic animal”. This has an English cognate other than water: the word otter. To be clear, otter doesn’t come from Sanskrit – the meaning of “aquatic animal” just happened to make it into both languages. But again, you wouldn’t even think that that the two are related!

More Water Words

As it turns out, the people who spoke Proto-Indo-European were a crazy bunch who had many words for water. *Wed, which we just looked at referred to water as an inanimate substance. The next word we’ll look at referred to water as a living force.

*Hep

This word made it into the Balto-Slavic languages Latvian and Lithuanian in the forms upe and  ùpė, respectively, with the meaning of “river”. It didn’t make it into any Germanic languages, but it was likely borrowed into English from a Celtic language, in the form avon, which also means “river”. This word survives in place names like Stratford-upon-Avon (the place where Shakespeare was born).

The word *Hep also made its way into various Indo-Iranian languages:

• Sanskrit: अप् (ap)
• Hindi: आब (āb)
• Farsi: آب (âb)
• Pashto: اوبه (obe)

This form was also borrowed into English through Arabic, Latin and French. The Farsi گلاب (golâb) meaning “rosewater” became the English julep, which is a drink (usually alcoholic) flavoured with aromatic herbs.

Strangely though, the Indo-Iranian forms of *Hep didn’t make it into Dhivehi, except as a borrowing in words like ގުލާބް (gulaab).

*Hek^weh

Another Proto-Indo-European word for water. This one made it into Latin in the form aqua which then went on into other Romance languages:

• Italian: aqua
• French: eau
• Spanish/Portuguese: agua
• Romanian: apă

*Hek^weh came into Proto-Germanic in two forms:

• *ahwō, meaning “river”, which gives us the dialectical English words ea and yeo which both mean “river” or “stream”.
• *awjō, meaning “floodplain” or “island”. This word gives us the English ey (meaning “island”) and it is where the i in island comes from (the s is there due to French influence). Ey as a suffix is also found in place names like Jersey and Guernsey, which are both Islands in the English Channel.

*Hek^weh, like *Hep, doesn’t have a Dhivehi descendant. In fact, it didn’t even make it into Sanskrit.

One Last Word

The only water word we haven’t looked at yet is the actual word for “water” used in Dhivehi: ފެން (fen). This comes from the Sanskrit पानीय (pānīya), which is based on the word पान (pāna) which means “(the act of) drinking”. Cognates exist in other Indic languages:

• Bengali: পানি (pani)
• Gujarati: પાણી (pāṇī)
• Hindi: पानी (pānī)
• Marathi: पाणी (pāṇī)

These words are also probably related to the word ފަނި (fani) which means “juice” or “syrup”.

पान (pāna) comes from the root पा (pā), which itself comes the PIE root *pō(i) which means “to drink”. Apart from being the source of “water” words in Indic languages, *pō(i) is also the source of “drink” words:

• Dhivehi: ބުއިން (buin) / ބޯން (boan)
• Sinhalese: බොන්න (bonna)
• Hindi: पीना (pīna)
• Nepali: पिउनु (piunu)
• Gujarati: પીવું (pīvũ)

*Pō(i) also has “drink” descendants in other languages:

• Latin: bibere
• Italian: bere
• French: boire
• Spanish/Portuguese: beber
• Romanian: bea
• Greek: πίνω (píno)
• Russian: пить (pit’)
• Czech: pít
• Croatian/Slovenian: piti
• Polish: pić
• Slovak: pit’

Even within English, there are several words which all go back to the root *pō(i):

• Beverage
• Beer (disputed origin)
• Bib
• Imbibe
• Potion
• Poison
• Symposium

Once again, you wouldn’t even think that words as different as these are related, or that they have cousins in so many other languages!

That’s It!

I hope you’re not feeling too thirsty after reading all that…