पर्वत

Borrowed from Sanskrit पर्वत (párvata).

• IPA^(key): /pəɾ.ʋət̪/

पर्वत • (parvat) m (Urdu spelling پروت‎)

1. mountain

   Synonyms: पहाड़ (pahāṛ), कोह (koh), अचल (acal), नग (nag), जबल (jabal)

• पर्बत (parbat) – in some mountain names, poetic

• पर्वतीय (parvatīya)
• पर्वतश्रेणी (parvataśreṇī)

• पार्वती (pārvatī)

Borrowed from Sanskrit पर्वत (párvata).

पर्वत • (parvat) m

1. mountain
2. hill

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *párwatas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *párwatas (“mountain, rock”), from Proto-Indo-European *pérwn̥-to-s (“rocky”), from *pérwr̥ (“rock”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬙𐬁‎ (pauruuatā, “mountain”), Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒊒 (pé-e-ru /péru/, “rock”), 𒁉𒂊𒊒𒈾𒀭𒍝 (pé-e-ru-na-an-za /pérunanta/, “rocky, craggy”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɐ́ɽ.ʋɐ.t̪ɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐɽ.ʋɐ.t̪ɐ/

पर्वत • (párvata) m

1. mountain, mountain range, height, hill, rock
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 5.57.3:

     धूनुथ द्यां पर्वतान्दाशुषे वसु नि वो वना जिहते यामनो भिया ।

     dhūnutha dyāṃ parvatāndāśuṣe vasu ni vo vanā jihate yāmano bhiyā .

     From hills and heaven ye shake wealth for the worshipper: in terror at your coming low the woods bow down.

   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.39.5:

     प्र वेपयन्ति पर्वतान्वि विञ्चन्ति वनस्पतीन् ।

     pra vepayanti parvatānvi viñcanti vanaspatīn .

     They make the mountains rock and reel, they rend the forest-kings apart.

2. an artificial mound or heap (of grain, salt, silver, gold etc. presented to Brahmans)
3. the number 7 (from the 7 principal mountain-ranges)
4. a fragment of rock, stone
5. a (mountain-like) cloud
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.64.11:

     हिरण्ययेभिः पविभिः पयोवृध उज्जिघ्नन्त आपथ्यो न पर्वतान् ।

     hiraṇyayebhiḥ pavibhiḥ payovṛdha ujjighnanta āpathyo na parvatān .

     They who with golden fellies make the rain increase drive forward the big clouds like wanderers on the way.

• पार्वती (pā́rvatī)

• Ashokan Prakrit: [Term?]
  • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀧𑀯𑁆𑀯𑀬 (pavvaya)
  • Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀧𑀯𑁆𑀯𑀤 (pavvada)
• Pali: pabbata
• → Bengali: পর্বত (pôrbôt)
• → Hindi: पर्वत (parvat)
• → Kannada: ಪರ್ವತ (parvata)
• → Marathi: पर्वत (parvat)
• → Tamil: பர்வதம் (parvatam)
• → Telugu: పర్వతము (parvatamu)

पर्वत • (párvata)

1. knotty, rugged (said of mountains)
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda

• Monier Williams (1899), “पर्वत”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0609.