Sanskrit

Noun

अष्ठीवत् • ‎(aṣṭhīvat) m

1. shank, shin

Usage notes

As shown by Lubotsky, the correct meaning is “shank, shin”, not “the knees”, as is usually thought.

References

• Lubotsky, Alexander (2002), “The Indo-Iranian Word for ‘shank, shin’”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 122, issue 2, pages 318–324