Hindi

Alternative forms

• बसन्त ‎(basant)

Noun

वसन्त • ‎(vasant) m ‎(Urdu spelling وسنت)

1. spring
2. the vernal season
3. the deified personification of spring

References

• John T. Platts (accessed 07-31-2012), “A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English”, in (Please provide the title of the work)

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wesentós ‎(“spring”). Cognate with Old Welsh guiannuin ‎(“in spring”); check Polish wiosna ‎(“spring”) and Russian весна ‎(vesna, “spring”). Confer etymologically related words उच्च्हति ‎(ucchati, “to shine, grow bright”), वसर् ‎(vasar, “morning”).

Noun

वसन्त • ‎(vasantá) m

1. "brilliant (season)", spring, comprising according to some the months चैत्र ‎(caitra) and वैशाख ‎(vaiśākha) or from the middle of March to that of May (compare ऋतु ‎(ṛtu)); often personified and considered as a friend or attendant of Kāmadeva, the god of love (RV. etc.)
2. a particular metre (4 times ˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ˘ ) (Col.)
3. (music) a particular time (L.)
4. diarrhoea (L.)
5. name of a man (Rājat.)

Declension

Descendants

• Telugu: వసంతము ‎(vasaṃtamu)
• Thai: วสันต์ ‎(wásăn)

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 0930