शश

See also: शिशी, शीशा, शीशी, शिशु, and शीश-

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• শশ (Assamese script)
• ᬰᬰ (Balinese script)
• শশ (Bengali script)
• 𑰫𑰫 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀰𑀰 (Brahmi script)
• ၐၐ (Burmese script)
• શશ (Gujarati script)
• ਸ਼ਸ਼ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌶𑌶 (Grantha script)
• ꦯꦯ (Javanese script)
• 𑂬𑂬 (Kaithi script)
• ಶಶ (Kannada script)
• ឝឝ (Khmer script)
• ຨຨ (Lao script)
• ശശ (Malayalam script)
• ᡧᠠᡧᠠ (Manchu script)
• 𑘫𑘫 (Modi script)
• ᠱᠠᠱᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧋𑧋 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐱𑐱 (Newa script)
• ଶଶ (Odia script)
• ꢯꢯ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆯𑆯 (Sharada script)
• 𑖫𑖫 (Siddham script)
• ශශ (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩿𑩿 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚧𑚧 (Takri script)
• ஶஶ (Tamil script)
• శశ (Telugu script)
• ศศ (Thai script)
• ཤ་ཤ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒬𑒬 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨮𑨮 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From earlier *शस (*śasa) (by assimilation of the second sibilant to the first), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćasás (“hare”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂s- (“grey, hare”). Cognate with English hare, Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”), Welsh ceinach (“hare, rabbit”), and Latin cānus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɐ.ɕɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɕɐ.ɕɐ/

Noun

श॒श • (śaśá) stem, m

1. hare, rabbit
2. antelope
3. lunar maria (which are thought to resemble a hare or rabbit)
4. a kind of meteor
5. name of a man born under a particular constellation
6. a man of mild character and easily led (one of the four classes into which men are divided by erotic writers, the other three being अश्व (aśva), मृग (mṛga) and वृषन् (vṛṣan))
7. the लोध्र (lodhra) tree, Symplocos racemosa
8. gum-myrrh
9. name of a part of जम्बुद्वीप (Jambu-dvīpa)

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of श॒श

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	श॒शः (śaśáḥ)	श॒शौ (śaśáu) श॒शा¹ (śaśā́¹)	श॒शाः (śaśā́ḥ) श॒शासः॑¹ (śaśā́saḥ¹)
accusative	श॒शम् (śaśám)	श॒शौ (śaśáu) श॒शा¹ (śaśā́¹)	श॒शान् (śaśā́n)
instrumental	श॒शेन॑ (śaśéna)	श॒शाभ्या॑म् (śaśā́bhyām)	श॒शैः (śaśáiḥ) श॒शेभिः॑¹ (śaśébhiḥ¹)
dative	श॒शाय॑ (śaśā́ya)	श॒शाभ्या॑म् (śaśā́bhyām)	श॒शेभ्यः॑ (śaśébhyaḥ)
ablative	श॒शात् (śaśā́t)	श॒शाभ्या॑म् (śaśā́bhyām)	श॒शेभ्यः॑ (śaśébhyaḥ)
genitive	श॒शस्य॑ (śaśásya)	श॒शयोः॑ (śaśáyoḥ)	श॒शाना॑म् (śaśā́nām)
locative	श॒शे (śaśé)	श॒शयोः॑ (śaśáyoḥ)	श॒शेषु॑ (śaśéṣu)
vocative	शश॑ (śáśa)	शशौ॑ (śáśau) शशा॑¹ (śáśā¹)	शशाः॑ (śáśāḥ) शशा॑सः¹ (śáśāsaḥ¹)

• ¹Vedic

Derived terms

• शशक (śaśaka)
• शशि (śaśi, “moon”)
• शशाङ्क (śaśāṅka, “moon”)

Descendants

• Pali: sasa
• Prakrit:
  • Magadhi Prakrit:
    • Assamese: শহা (xoha)
    • Bengali: শশা (śośa)
  • Helu Prakrit:
    • Sinhalese: සාවා (sāwā), සහාවා (sahāwā), ශශයා (śaśayā), සැසයා (sæsayā), හාවෝ (hāwō)?
  • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀲𑀲 (sasa)
    • Old Marathi: ससा (sasā)
      • Marathi: ससा (sasā)
    • Konkani: सोंसो (souso)
  • Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀲𑀲 (sasa)
    • Gujarati: સસલું (saslũ)
    • Hindi: सस (sas)
    • Punjabi: ਸਹਾ (sahā), ਸਹਿਆ (sahiā)
    • Romani: śośoj
• → Tamil: சசம் (cacam)

References

• Monier Williams (1899), “शश”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1060/1.