प्रसार

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रसार (prasāra), related to पंसारी (pansārī). See also पसार (pasār)

Noun

प्रसार • (prasār) m (Urdu spelling پرسار)

1. emission, broadcast
2. extension, expansion

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “prasāra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

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Sanskrit

Etymology

प्र- (pra-) +‎ सार (sāra). The resulting verb thereof is प्रसरति (prasarati, “to extend, stretch”)

Noun

प्रसार • (prasāra) stem, m

1. spreading or stretching out, extension
2. a trader's shop

Derived terms

• प्रसरण (prasaraṇa, “currency”)
• प्रसारण (prasāraṇa, “augmentation, increase”)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “प्रसार”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0698.