प्रवाह

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रवाह (pravāha).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɾə.ʋɑːʱ/

Noun

प्रवाह • (pravāh) m

  1. current, flow; course (literal and figurative)
    1. (electricity) electric current
  2. (Hinduism) the pouring of ashes into a holy river

Declension

Declension of प्रवाह
Singular Plural
Direct प्रवाह (pravāh) प्रवाह (pravāh)
Oblique प्रवाह (pravāh) प्रवाहों (pravāhõ)
Vocative प्रवाह (pravāh) प्रवाहो (pravāho)

Sanskrit

Etymology

From प्रवह् (pravah, “to carry forwards”)

Noun

प्रवाह • (pravāha) m, f

  1. a stream, river, current, running water.

Descendants

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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