सूनु

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[edit] Sanskrit

[edit] Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *suHnus, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús. Cognates include Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃 (sunus), Lithuanian sūnùs, Old Church Slavonic сꙑнъ (synŭ) and Old English sunu (English son).

[edit] Noun

सूनु (sūnú) m.

  1. a son, child, offspring (RV. etc.)
    रयिर्न चित्रा सूरो न सन्द्र्गायुर्न पराणो नित्यो नसूनुः |
    तक्वा न भूर्णिर्वना सिषक्ति पयो न धेनुः शुचिर्विभावा ||
    rayirna citrā sūro na sandṛghāyurna prāṇo nityo nasūnuḥ |
    takvā na bhūrṇirvanā siṣakti payo na dhenuḥ śucirvibhāvā ||
    LIKE the Sun's glance, like wealth of varied sort, like breath which is the life, like one's own son,
    Like a swift bird, a cow who yields her milk, pure and refulgent to the wood he speeds.
  2. a younger brother (Kir. i, 24)
  3. a daughter's son (W.)
  4. name of a rishi (having the patronymic आर्भव (ārbhava) or काश्यप (kāśyapa), author of RV. x, 176) (Auukr.)
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सूनु (sūnú) f.

  1. a daughter (Mn. i, 10.)
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[edit] Etymology 2

From the root √sū (to beget, produce, yield).

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सूनु (sūnú) m.

  1. one who presses out or extracts the soma-juice (RV. iii, 1, 12; = सोतृ (sotṛ), Sāy.)
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सूनु (sūnu) m.

  1. one who urges or incites, an inciter (Sāy. on RV. i, 103, 4)
  2. the sun (= सवितृ (savitṛ)) (L.)
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[edit] References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898, page 1240
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