प्रश्न

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रश्न (praśná).

• IPA^(key): /pɾəʃn/, /pɾəʃ.nə/, /pɾə.ʃən/

प्रश्न • (praśn) m (Urdu spelling پرشن‎)

1. question, query, problem, interrogation

   मैंने उसके सब प्रश्नों के उत्तर दे दिये है।

   mainne uske sab praśnõ ke uttar de diye hai.

   I have answered all his questions.

• (question): सवाल (savāl)

• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “प्रश्न”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons

प्रश्न • (praśna), pronounced प्रस्न (prasna)

1. question

   प्रश्न गर्नु  ―  praśna garnu  ―  to question, to interrogate

   प्रश्न सोध्नु  ―  praśna sodhnu  ―  to ask a question, to question

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *praśnás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *praĉnás, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-nó-s or *ploḱ-nó-s, from *pleḱ- (“to fold, weave”). Cognate with Latin plecto, Ancient Greek πλοκή (plokḗ).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɽɐɕ.n̪ɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpɽɐɕ.n̪ɐ/

प्रश्न • (praśná) m

1. basket-work, a plaited basket
2. (by commentator) "a turban"

From the root प्रछ् (prach), whence पृच्छति (pṛccháti, “to ask, question, interrogate”).

प्रश्न • (praśná) m

1. question, demand, interrogation, query, inquiry; also in compounds:

   कुशलप्रश्न (kúśala-praśna) — friendly enquiry after a person's health or welfare, salutation

2. (law) judicial inquiry or examination

   साक्षिप्रश्न (sā-kṣi-praśna) — interrogation of witnesses

3. (astrology) astrological inquiry into the future

   दिव्यप्रश्न (divyá-praśna) — inquiring into divine phenomena, augury

   देवप्रश्न (devá-praśna) — "consulting the gods", fortune-telling

   दैवप्रश्न (daíva-praśna) — inquiring of fate, astrology

4. a subject of inquiry, point at issue, controversy, problem

   प्रत्नम् प्रब्रवीति (praśnam pra-√brū) — to decide a controverted point

   प्रत्नम् एति (praśnam √i) (+ accusative) or प्रत्नम् आ गच्छति (praśnam ā √gam) (+locative of person) — to lay a question before any one for decision

   प्रश्नस् तव पितरि (praśnas tava pitari) — the point at issue is before thy father

5. a task or lesson (in Vedic recitation)
6. a short section or paragraph (in books)

• → Burmese: ပြဿနာ (pra.ssa.na)
• → Hindi: प्रश्न (praśn)
• → Khmer: បញ្ហា (bañhaa)