शश
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćasás (“hare”), Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂s- (“grey, hare”). Cognate with English hare, Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”), Welsh ceinach (“hare, rabbit”) and Latin cānus (“white”).
Noun
शश • (śaśá) m
- hare, rabbit
- antelope
- a kind of meteor
- name of a man born under a particular constellation
- a man of mild character and easily led (one of the four classes into which men are divided by erotic writers, the other three being अश्व (aśva), मृग (mṛga) and वृषन् (vṛṣan))
- the लोध्र (lodhra) tree, Symplocos racemosa
- gum-myrrh
- name of a part of जम्बुद्वीप (Jambu-dvīpa)
Declension
| Masculine a-stem declension of शश (śaśá) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | शशः śaśáḥ |
शशौ śaśaú |
शशाः / शशासः¹ śaśā́ḥ / śaśā́saḥ¹ |
| Vocative | शश śáśa |
शशौ śáśau |
शशाः / शशासः¹ śáśāḥ / śáśāsaḥ¹ |
| Accusative | शशम् śaśám |
शशौ śaśaú |
शशान् śaśā́n |
| Instrumental | शशेन śaśéna |
शशाभ्याम् śaśā́bhyām |
शशैः / शशेभिः¹ śaśaíḥ / śaśébhiḥ¹ |
| Dative | शशाय śaśā́ya |
शशाभ्याम् śaśā́bhyām |
शशेभ्यः śaśébhyaḥ |
| Ablative | शशात् śaśā́t |
शशाभ्याम् śaśā́bhyām |
शशेभ्यः śaśébhyaḥ |
| Genitive | शशस्य śaśásya |
शशयोः śaśáyoḥ |
शशानाम् śaśā́nām |
| Locative | शशे śaśé |
शशयोः śaśáyoḥ |
शशेषु śaśéṣu |
| Notes |
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References
- Monier Williams (1899), “शश”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 1060/1.
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