दुम्बक

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dewmbʰ- (penis, tail, rod), and related to Persian دنب (donb, tail).

Pronunciation

Noun

दुम्बक • (dumbaka) stem, m

  1. the thick-tailed sheep

Declension=

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References

  • Monier Williams (1899), दुम्बक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 484/2.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 267
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), dumbaka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
  • Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 479
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