Thursday, February 24, 2011

आसमान آسمان ♣ Eng. edge, acute

आसमान آسمان ♣ Eng. edge, acute

[āsmān], m. the sky.

[←New Pers. āsmān ‘sky, heaven’ ◄Middle Pers. asmān ‘sky, heaven’ ◄Old Pers. asman- m. ‘heaven’] ♣[Young Avestan asman- m. ‘stone, sling-stone; heaven’] ♣[OIA áśman- m. ʻstone, rock; thunderbolt; the firmamentʼ RV.]

▲[PIE *ak̂-, ok̂- ‘sharp; stone’](LRC),(AHD)▼

[PIE► ⋯⋯ ►Eng. edge, ear, hammer, heaven] ♣[PIE► ⋯⋯ →Eng. acute, acrid, eager, acid, oxygen]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0053; (Turner, 1966) 915; (MW, 1899) 0114; (Pokorny, 1959) 0018; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.137; (MacKenzie, 1971) 012; (Horn, 1893) 0027

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