स्रवति

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-Aryan *sráwati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sráwati, from Proto-Indo-European *sréw-e-ti (“to flow, stream”), from *srew-.[1] Cognate with Parthian 𐫡𐫀𐫇𐫏𐫗𐫅 (rʾwynd, “to pour off”, 3pl.pres.),[2] Old Armenian առոգեմ (aṙogem), Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō), Lithuanian sravė́ti.

Not to be confused with सरति (sarati) from सृ (sṛ).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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स्रवति • (srávati) third-singular indicative (class 1, type P, root स्रु)[3]

  1. to flow, stream
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.108.4:
      नाहं तं वे॑द॒ दभ्यं॒ दभ॒त्स यस्ये॒दं दू॒तीरस॑रं परा॒कात्।
      न तं गू॑हन्ति स्र॒वतो॑ गभी॒रा ह॒ता इन्द्रे॑ण पणयः शयध्वे॥
      nā́háṃ táṃ veda dábhyaṃ dábhatsá yásyedáṃ dūtī́rásaraṃ parākā́t.
      ná táṃ gūhanti sraváto gabhīrā́ hatā́ índreṇa paṇayaḥ śayadhve.
      I know him safe from harm: but he can punish who sent me hither from afar as envoy.
      Him rivers flowing with deep waters bide not. Low will ye be, O Panis, slain by Indra.
  2. to leak, drip
  3. to perish, fail
  4. to issue, arise [with accusative ‘to’]
  5. (finance) to accrue

Descendants

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  • Bengali: প্রস্রবণ (prosrobon)

References

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  1. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*sreu̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 588
  2. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*hrau”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
  3. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “स्रवति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1274.
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