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मेष
मेष
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *móysos (“sheep, skin of sheep”). Cognates include Persian میش (meš), Old Irish meiss and Old Prussian moasis.
Noun
मेष • (meṣá) m
- ram, sheep (in the older language applied also to a fleece or anything woollen)
- RV 1.52.1a
- तयं सु मेषं महया सवर्विदं शतं यस्य सुभ्वः साकमीरते |
- अत्यं न वाजं हवनस्यदं रथमेन्द्रं वव्र्त्यामवसे सुव्र्क्तिभिः ||
- tyaṃ su meṣaṃ mahayā svarvidaṃ śataṃ yasya subhvaḥ sākamīrate |
- atyaṃ na vājaṃ havanasyadaṃ rathamendraṃ vavṛtyāmavase suvṛktibhiḥ ||
- I GLORIFY that Ram who finds the light of heaven, whose hundred nobly-natured ones go forth with him.
- With hymns may I turn hither Indra to mine aid,—the Car which like a strong steed hasteth to the call.
- RV 1.52.1a
- the sign of the zodiac Aries or the first arc of 30 degrees in a circle
- (botany) a species of plant
- name of a particular demon
Declension
| Masculine a-stem declension of मेष | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nom. sg. | मेषः (meṣaḥ) | ||
| Gen. sg. | मेषस्य (meṣasya) | ||
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | मेषः (meṣaḥ) | मेषौ (meṣau) | मेषाः (meṣāḥ) |
| Vocative | मेष (meṣa) | मेषौ (meṣau) | मेषाः (meṣāḥ) |
| Accusative | मेषम् (meṣam) | मेषौ (meṣau) | मेषान् (meṣān) |
| Instrumental | मेषेण (meṣeṇa) | मेषाभ्याम् (meṣābhyām) | मेषैः (meṣaiḥ) |
| Dative | मेषाय (meṣāya) | मेषाभ्याम् (meṣābhyām) | मेषेभ्यः (meṣebhyaḥ) |
| Ablative | मेषात् (meṣāt) | मेषाभ्याम् (meṣābhyām) | मेषेभ्यः (meṣebhyaḥ) |
| Genitive | मेषस्य (meṣasya) | मेषयोः (meṣayoḥ) | मेषाणाम् (meṣāṇām) |
| Locative | मेषे (meṣe) | मेषयोः (meṣayoḥ) | मेषेषु (meṣeṣu) |
References
- Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0833
- Arthur A. Macdonell, A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, 1893, page 235
