The Sanskrit term Praduṣ can be transliterated into English as Pradus or Pradush, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Praduṣ (प्रदुष्).—4 P.

1) To grow worse, deteriorate.

2) To be corrupted or spoiled, be vitiated; तदहर्न प्रदुष्येत पूर्वेषां जन्मकारणात् (tadaharna praduṣyeta pūrveṣāṃ janmakāraṇāt) Y.3.19.

3) To sin, err, commit an offence against, be faithless or unchaste; अधर्माभिभवात् कृष्ण प्रदुष्यन्ति कुलस्त्रियः (adharmābhibhavāt kṛṣṇa praduṣyanti kulastriyaḥ) Bhagavadgītā (Bombay) 1.41; Manusmṛti 9.74; यद्यस्य विहितं भोज्यं न तत्तस्य प्रदुष्यति (yadyasya vihitaṃ bhojyaṃ na tattasya praduṣyati) Pañcatantra (Bombay) 4.57. -Caus.

1) (a) To spoil, corrupt, soil, taint. (b) To pollute, contaminate, defile.

2) To blame, censure, find fault with.

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Prādus (प्रादुस्).—ind. Visibly, evidently, manifestly, in sight (used chiefly with bhū, kṛ and as); प्रादुश्चकर्थ यदिदं पुरुहूत- रूपम् (prāduścakartha yadidaṃ puruhūta- rūpam) Bhāg.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prādus (प्रादुस्).—Ind. 1. Evidently, apparently, manifestly. 2. Visible, apparent. 3. Name, appellation. 4. Existence. 5. Co-existence. E. pra before, ad to go, or eat, Unadi aff. usi .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prādus (प्रादुस्).—adv. and prep, combined and compounded with verbs and their derivatives. 1. Arising, coming to light. 2. Visible, manifestly. 3. Existent.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prādus (प्रादुस्).—[adverb] forth to view, into sight. With as & bhū become visible, appear, rise; [with] kṛ make visible, reveal, show.

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Praduṣ (प्रदुष्).—get worse, be spoiled or contaminated, do amiss, sin against (prati).

Praduṣ is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms pra and duṣ (दुष्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Praduṣ (प्रदुष्):—[=pra-√duṣ] [Parasmaipada] -duṣyati, to become worse, deteriorate, [Suśruta];

—to be defiled or polluted, fall (morally), [Manu-smṛti; Yājñavalkya];

—to commit an offence against ([accusative]), [Mahābhārata];

—to become faithless, fall off, [ib.] :

—[Causal] -dūṣayati, to spoil, deprave, corrupt, pollute, defile, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.;

—to abuse, blame, censure, [Rāmāyaṇa];

— (with cittam) to be angry, [Divyāvadāna]

2) Prāduṣ (प्रादुष्):—[from prādur] in [compound] for prādur (cf. above).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prādus (प्रादुस्):—[prā+dus] adv. Evidently, visibly. ind. Name; existence.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Prādus (प्रादुस्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Pāuṃ.

[Sanskrit to German]

Pradush in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Dush, Pra.

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Ends with: Sampradush.

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