Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Sanskrit
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
Sanskrit .
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Many brewing words, from ferment (OED, "root of ferv-re to boil") to yeast (OED "The underlying base jes- is found also in Skr. yás(y)ati to seethe, boil"), are also connected with boiling, probably because of the bubbling that takes place in fermenting liquid.
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Now, the OED says Persian sīmurgh is from "Pahlavi sīn Av. saēna, Skr. çyena eagle + murgh bird," but the first syllable sounds like the Persian word sī 'thirty,' a coincidence that led to one of the masterpieces of world literature, Fariduddin Attar's Mantiq at-tayr or Conference of the Birds, available in many translations.
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\Epi-\ Gr. 'epi` on, upon, to; akin to Skr. api besides, and prob. to L. ob to, before, on account of, and perh. to E. of, off.
epi-logue 2004
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\Epi-\ Gr. 'epi` on, upon, to; akin to Skr. api besides, and prob. to L. ob to, before, on account of, and perh. to E. of, off.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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This year's Nobel Prize - Skr. 700.000 - will be shared equally by Ohlin and Meade.
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PS pętь;, originally a numeral substantive *penkʷtis (Skr. paŋktiṣ; the number five' from the proper numeral *penkʷe (Slavic languages have preserved only the numerals 1-4, cf.
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