शृङ्ग

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *śr̥Hngám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ĉr̥Hngám, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic сръна (srŭna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Latin cornū, Old English horn (whence English horn).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕr̩ŋ.ɡɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɕr̩ŋ.ɡɐ/

शृङ्ग • (śṛṅgá) n

1. the horn of an animal
2. the tusk of an elephant
3. the top or summit of a mountain, a peak, crag
4. the summit of a building, pinnacle, turret
5. any peak or projection or lofty object, elevation, point, end, extremity
6. a cusp or horn of the moon.
7. highest point, acme, height or perfection of anything

• शृङ्गार (śṛṅgāra)
• शृङ्गगिरि (śṛṅgagiri) or शृङ्गेरि (śṛṅgeri)

• Pali: siṅga
• Magadhi Prakrit: [Term?]
  • Assamese: শিং (xiṅ)
  • Bengali: শিঙা (śiṅa)
  • Sylheti: ꠢꠤꠋ (hing)
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕 (siṃga)
  • Hindi: सींग (sīṅg)
  • Punjabi: ਸਿੰਗ (siṅg)
  • Romani: shing
• → Kannada: ಶೃಂಗ (śruṅga)
• → Telugu: శృంగము (śr̥ṅgamu)
• Thai: ศฤงค์

शृङ्ग • (śṛṅgá) m

1. a kind of medicinal or poisonous plant.
2. Name of a मुनि (of whom, in some parts of India, on occasions of drought, earthen images are said to be made and worshipped for rain).

• Monier Williams (1899), “शृङ्ग”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 1087.