प्रवह

Sanskrit

Etymology

From प्रवह् (pravah, “to carry forwards”)

Adjective

प्रवह • (pravaha)

  1. bearing along, carrying.

Noun

प्रवह • (pravaha) m

  1. wind, air.
  2. a reservoir into which water is carried.
  3. flowing or streaming forth.
  4. going forth, going from a town.

Proper noun

प्रवह • (pravaha) m

  1. Name of one of the 7 winds said to cause the motion of the planets.
  2. Name of one of the 7 tongues of fire.

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 0691
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