निस्

See also: नस and नासा

Sanskrit

Etymology

From नि (ní).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /n̪ís̪/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /n̪is̪/

Adverb

निस् • (nís)

out, forth, away &c.

Usage notes

Rarely used independently (AV.), but normally as a prefix to verbs and their derivatives, or to nouns not immediately connected with verbs, in which case it has the sense, "out of", "away from" or that of a negative adverb.

References

Monier Williams (1899), “निस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 543.

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