पा

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /pɑː/, [päː]

पा • (pā)

1. inflection of पाना (pānā):
   1. stem
   2. second-person singular intimate present imperative

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɑː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /pɑː/

From Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”); Cognate with Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎮𐎹 (pādiy), Latin pascō (“to feed, maintain”), Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀕 (po-me). Probably not related to पाल (pāla, “guard”), despite popular folk etymology; see there for more.^[1][2]

पा • (pā)

1. to watch, keep, preserve
2. to protect from, defend against
3. to protect (a country), i.e. rule, govern
4. to observe, notice, attend to, follow

Sometimes given with पालयति (pāláyati) as causative.

पा • (pā́) stem

1. keeping, protecting, guarding, etc.

• गोपा (gopā́)
• तनूपा (tanūpā́)

पा • (pā) stem, f

1. guarding, protecting

• Monier Williams (1899), “पा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 573/2, 613/2.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 96

From Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“to drink”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek πόσις (pósis) whence symposium (“drinking together”); Latin pōtō whence English potion and poison; Proto-Slavic *pivo (“beer”).^[1][2]

पा • (pā)

1. to drink, quaff, suck, sip, swallow
2. (figuratively) to imbibe, draw in, appropriate, enjoy, feast upon (with the eyes, ears, etc.)
3. to drink up, exhaust, absorb
4. to drink intoxicating liquors

पात्र (pā́tra, “bowl, vessel, cup”) is often also considered to belong here, but this might not be etymologically accurate.

पा • (pā) stem

1. drinking, quaffing, etc.

• Monier Williams (1899), “पा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 612, column 3.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), “पा”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 95

• Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “पा”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016

• Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 255
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 462
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 839

Probably related to Hittite [script needed] (pippa-, “to overturn”), [script needed] (pa-i-mi-, “goes”); a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *peH- (“to rise against”) may be reconstructed.^[1] More recent theories refine the reconstruction of the root as *(s)peh₂- (“to draw, set in motion”), and additionally adduce Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō, “to draw a sword”) as cognate.^[2]

Burrow and Whitney's derivations of the root as a semantic specialization of Etymology 2 ("to drink") are less likely.^[3]

पा • (pā)

1. to rise against, be hostile

• Monier Williams (1899), “पा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1330, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 96