प्रवाह

See also: प्रवह and प्रवह्

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रवाह (pravāha).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾə.ʋɑːʱ/

Noun

प्रवाह • (pravāh) m

1. current, flow; course (literal and figurative)
   1. (electricity) electric current
2. (Hinduism) the pouring of ashes into a holy river

Declension

Declension of प्रवाह
	Singular	Plural
Direct	प्रवाह (pravāh)	प्रवाह (pravāh)
Oblique	प्रवाह (pravāh)	प्रवाहों (pravāhõ)
Vocative	प्रवाह (pravāh)	प्रवाहो (pravāho)

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Sanskrit

Etymology

From प्रवह् (pravah, “to carry forwards”)

Noun

प्रवाह • (pravāha) m, f

1. a stream, river, current, running water.

Descendants

• Telugu ప్రవాహము (pravāhamu)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0691