हेमन्त

हेमन्त m

1. Devanagari script form of hemanta (“winter”)

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From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰaymantás, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeyméns, from *ǵʰey- (“winter”). Cognate with Latin hībernum (“winter”), Ancient Greek χεῖμᾰ (kheîma), Persian زمستان‎ (zemestân), Old Armenian ձմեռն (jmeṙn), Avestan 𐬰𐬌𐬌𐬃‎ (ziiā̊, “winter”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɦɐj.mɐn.tɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɦeːˈmɐn̪.t̪ɐ/

हेमन्त • (hemantá) stem, m

1. winter, the cold season
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.161.4:

     शतं जीव शरदो वर्धमानः शतं हेमन्ताञ्छतमु वसन्तान्।

     śataṃ jīva śarado vardhamānaḥ śataṃ hemantāñchatamu vasantān.

     Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.

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• हिम (hima)
• हेमन् (heman)

• Dardic:
  • Phalura: ہیواند‎ (heewaánd)
• Pali: hemanta
  • → Burmese: ဟေမန္တ (hemanta.), ဟေမန် (heman) (learned)
  • → Khmer: ហេមន្ត (heemɑn) (learned)
• Prakrit: 𑀳𑁂𑀫𑀁𑀢 (hemaṃta)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: हेवंत (hevant)

  • Romani: ivend
• → Bengali: হেমন্ত (hemôntô) (learned)
• → Kannada: ಹೇಮಂತ (hēmanta) (learned)
• → Malayalam: ഹേമന്തം (hēmantaṁ) (learned)
• → Tamil: ஹேமந்தம் (hēmantam), ஏமந்தம் (ēmantam) (learned)
• → Telugu: హేమంతము (hēmantamu) (learned)
• → Thai: เหมันต์ (hěe-man) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899), “हेमन्त”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1304/1.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 819-20