सर्षप

Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सर्षप (sarṣapa). Doublet of सरसों (sarsõ), a tadbhava.

Pronunciation

Noun

सर्षप • (sarṣapm (Urdu spelling سَرْشَپ)

  1. (formal, rare) mustard, mustard-seed
    Synonym: (more common) सरसों (sarsõ)

References

  • Platts, John T. (1884), “sarshap”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Sanskrit

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Etymology

Presumably a Kulturwort found across the Mediterranean and Western Asia, whose original form is tentatively denoted as *s¹eṇs²ap-.[1] The version of the word loaned into Indo-Iranian may be from the the BMAC substrate, with form *sinšap-; compare Khotanese [script needed] (śśaśvāna), Parthian [script needed] (šyfš-d'n), Sogdian [script needed] (šywšp-δn), and perhaps Persian سپندان (sepandân, mustard seed), Ancient Greek σῐ́νᾱπῐ (sĭ́nāpĭ).[2] Malay sawi (mustard greens) is sometimes compared, though more recent scholarship considers different origins for the Malay.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

स॒र्षप॑ • (sarṣápa) stemm

  1. mustard, mustard-seed
  2. a mustard-seed used as a weight, any minute weight
  3. a kind of poison

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of स॒र्षप॑
singular dual plural
nominative स॒र्षपः॑ (sarṣápaḥ) स॒र्षपौ॑ (sarṣápau)
स॒र्षपा॑¹ (sarṣápā¹)
स॒र्षपाः॑ (sarṣápāḥ)
स॒र्षपा॑सः¹ (sarṣápāsaḥ¹)
accusative स॒र्षप॑म् (sarṣápam) स॒र्षपौ॑ (sarṣápau)
स॒र्षपा॑¹ (sarṣápā¹)
स॒र्षपा॑न् (sarṣápān)
instrumental स॒र्षपे॑ण (sarṣápeṇa) स॒र्षपा॑भ्याम् (sarṣápābhyām) स॒र्षपैः॑ (sarṣápaiḥ)
स॒र्षपे॑भिः¹ (sarṣápebhiḥ¹)
dative स॒र्षपा॑य (sarṣápāya) स॒र्षपा॑भ्याम् (sarṣápābhyām) स॒र्षपे॑भ्यः (sarṣápebhyaḥ)
ablative स॒र्षपा॑त् (sarṣápāt) स॒र्षपा॑भ्याम् (sarṣápābhyām) स॒र्षपे॑भ्यः (sarṣápebhyaḥ)
genitive स॒र्षप॑स्य (sarṣápasya) स॒र्षप॑योः (sarṣápayoḥ) स॒र्षपा॑णाम् (sarṣápāṇām)
locative स॒र्षपे॑ (sarṣápe) स॒र्षप॑योः (sarṣápayoḥ) स॒र्षपे॑षु (sarṣápeṣu)
vocative सर्ष॑प (sárṣapa) सर्ष॑पौ (sárṣapau)
सर्ष॑पा¹ (sárṣapā¹)
सर्ष॑पाः (sárṣapāḥ)
सर्ष॑पासः¹ (sárṣapāsaḥ¹)
  • ¹Vedic

Descendants

  • Ardhamagadhi Prakrit: 𑀲𑀭𑀺𑀲𑀯 (sarisava)
  • Magadhi Prakrit:
  • Maharastri Prakrit:
  • Pali: sāsapa
  • Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀲𑀭𑀺𑀲𑀯 (sarisava)
  • Old Javanese: [script needed] (sasawi) [script needed] (sawi) (from an unknown Prakrit form)
    • Javanese: ꦱꦮꦶ (sawi)
    • → Classical Malay: [Term?]
      • Malay: sesawi
        • Indonesian: sesawi
  • Hindi: सर्षप (sarṣap)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976), “sarṣápaḥ”, in Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 447
  2. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “sarṣapa-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 712

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