अश्व

Borrowed from Sanskrit अश्व (áśva), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćwas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos.

• IPA^(key): /əʃʋ/

अश्व • (aśva) m (Urdu spelling اشو‎)

1. (formal) horse

   Synonyms: घोड़ा (ghoṛā) (more common), तुरग (turag)

Borrowed from Sanskrit अश्व (áśva), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćwas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”)

अश्व (transliteration needed) m

1. horse

   Synonym: अश्व

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Háśwas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćwas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬯𐬞𐬀‎ (aspa), Old Persian 𐎠𐎿 (a-s /asa/), Lithuanian ašva, Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos) Latin equus, Old English eoh.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́ɕ.ʋɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɐɕ.ʋɐ/

अश्व • (áśva) m

1. horse, stallion

   Synonyms: वातायन (vātāyana), हय (haya)

   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.161.3:

     अग्निं दूतं प्रति यदब्रवीतनाश्वः कर्त्वो रथ उतेह कर्त्वः ।
     धेनुः कर्त्वा युवशा कर्त्वा द्वा तानि भ्रातरनु वः कृत्व्येमसि ॥

     agniṃ dūtaṃ prati yadabravītanāśvaḥ kartvo ratha uteha kartvaḥ .
     dhenuḥ kartvā yuvaśā kartvā dvā tāni bhrātaranu vaḥ kṛtvyemasi .

     What to the envoy Agni in reply ye spake, a courser must be made, a chariot fashioned here,
     A cow must be created, and the Twain made young. When we have done these things, Brother, we turn to you.

2. (chess) knight
3. the number "seven" (that being the number of the horses of the sun)
4. Sagittarius

• अश्वक (aśvaká)
• अश्वति (aśvati)
• अश्वत्थामन् (aśvatthāman)
• अश्वमेध (aśvamedhá)
• अश्वश्चन्द्र (áśvaścandra)
• स्वश्व (sv-áśva)

• Dardic: *ášpa
  • Shina: اَںشپوࣿ‎ (ä̃špo)
  • Kalasha: hãš
• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀆𑀲 (āsa)
• Pali: assa
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀅𑀲𑁆𑀲 (assa)
  • Rajasthani: अस (as)

• “अ॑श्व” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 51, column 2.
• Arthur A. Macdonell, A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, 1893, page 033
• Monier Williams (1899), “अश्व”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0114, column 3.
• Horace Hayman Wilson, A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed., Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 090
• Alexander Lubotsky, A Rgvedic Word Concordance, American Oriental Society, 1997, lemma áśva