वप्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• ৱপ্ (Assamese script)
• ᬯᬧ᭄ (Balinese script)
• বপ্ (Bengali script)
• 𑰪𑰢𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀯𑀧𑁆 (Brahmi script)
• ဝပ် (Burmese script)
• વપ્ (Gujarati script)
• ਵਪ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌵𑌪𑍍 (Grantha script)
• ꦮꦥ꧀ (Javanese script)
• 𑂫𑂣𑂹 (Kaithi script)
• ವಪ್ (Kannada script)
• វប៑ (Khmer script)
• ວປ຺ (Lao script)
• വപ് (Malayalam script)
• ᠸᠠᢒ (Manchu script)
• 𑘪𑘢𑘿 (Modi script)
• ᠸᠠᢒ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧊𑧂𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐰𑐥𑑂 (Newa script)
• ଵପ୍ (Odia script)
• ꢮꢦ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆮𑆥𑇀 (Sharada script)
• 𑖪𑖢𑖿 (Siddham script)
• වප් (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩾𑩰 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚦𑚞𑚶 (Takri script)
• வப் (Tamil script)
• వప్ (Telugu script)
• วปฺ (Thai script)
• ཝ་པ྄ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒫𑒣𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨭𑨞𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐp/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋɐp/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *(H)wap- (“to strew, scatter”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬎𐬎𐬁𐬞𐬀𐬝 (vīuuāpat̰, “strews apart, plunders”). The Indo-Iranian root has been derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wep(h₁)- (“to scatter, harass”), with Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to hurl, throw; to mistreat, harass”) as a cognate. Furthermore, Hittite [script needed] (hippa-, “heap”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”), Old Irish fel (“bad”) have tentatively been connected. Compare also वपा (vapā, “omentum”), वप्र (vapra, “rampart”).

Root

वप् • (vap)

1. to strew, scatter, bestrew
   1. (especially) to strew or scatter seeds, sow
      1. to plant, put in the ground
      2. to procreate, beget
2. to throw, cast (dice)
3. to throw or heap up, dam up

Derived terms

• अन्यवाप (anyavāpa)
• अवप्त (avapta)
• अवाप्सीत् (avāpsīt)
• अवीवपत् (avīvapat)
• आवपति (āvapati)
• आवपन (āvapana)
• उद्वपति (udvapati)
• उपेत् (upet)
• उप्त (upta)
• उप्तिविद् (uptivid)
• उप्त्वा (uptvā)
• उप्यते (upyate)
• उप्यते (upyate)
• उप्यात् (upyāt)
• उवाप (uvāpa)
• ऊपुस् (ūpus)
• ऊपे (ūpe)
• न्युप्त (nyupta)
• वपति (vapati)
• वपते (vapate)
• वपिष्यति (vapiṣyati)
• वपुस् (vapus)
• वप्ता (vaptā)
• वप्तुम् (vaptum)
• वप्तृ (vaptṛ)
• वप्स्यति (vapsyati)
• ववाप (vavāpa)
• ववेपे (vavepe)
• वापयति (vāpayati)
• वापि (vāpi)
• वावप्ति (vāvapti)
• वावप्यते (vāvapyate)
• विवप्सति (vivapsati)
• विवप्सते (vivapsate)

 

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *(H)wap- (“to shave, shear”). Cognate with Khotanese [script needed] (patävutta, “shaven”). The further etymology of this Indo-Iranian root is uncertain and it has tentatively been connected to Etymology 1, with Lubotsky opining that a single root existed in Indo-Iranian with both meanings.

Root

वप् • (vap)

1. to shear, shave, cut off
2. to crop (herbage), mow, cut (grass), graze

Derived terms

• उप्त (upta)
• उप्त्वा (uptvā)
• वपति (vapati)
• वपते (vapate)
• वपन (vapana)
• वप्तृ (vaptṛ)
• वापयति (vāpayati)
• वापयते (vāpayate)
• वापयीत (vāpayīta)
• व्युप्त (vyupta)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “वप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 919/3.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 154
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 503-4
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University