Sunday, January 3, 2010

पुट्ठा پُٹّھا ♣ Eng. fore + stand

पुट्ठा پُٹّھا ♣ Eng. fore + stand

[puṭṭʰā], m. the buttock, hip, rump.

[◀MIA: Pk. piṭṭha-, puṭṭha-, paṭṭha- n. ‘back’, piṭṭhaō ‘from behind’; Pa. piṭṭhē ‘on’, °ṭhēna ‘beside, along’ ◀OIA pr̥ṣṭhá- n. ‘back, hinder part’ RV., °aka- n. R. <+②prá- ‘before, forward, in front, on, forth’ (♣Eng. fore ) <√sthā ‘stand’ ◀PIE *stā- : stǝ- ‘to stand’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. stand, stool, stem, stead ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. stage, stance, stay, station, status ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0228; (Turner, 1966) 8371; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 457; (MW, 1899) 0647, 1262, ② 0652; (Pokorny, 1959) 1004, ② 0810 (0813); (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.165, 2.764, ② 2.173

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