चूष्

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Sanskrit

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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Probably an onomatopoeic root imitative of sucking sounds; compare चुचि (cuci, the female breast) and चुम्ब् (cumb, to kiss).

Pronunciation

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Root

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चूष् (cūṣ)

  1. to suck, suck out
  2. to be sucked up or dried up (by internal inflammation)

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “चूष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 401/2.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 48
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 197