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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prasrava (प्रस्रव).—1 Trickling forth, gushing, flowing or oozing out.

2) A flow, stream.

3) Milk flowing from the breast or udder; प्रस्रवे च शुचिर्वत्सः (prasrave ca śucirvatsaḥ) Manusmṛti 5.13; प्रस्रवेण (prasraveṇa) (v. l. for prasnavena) अभिवर्षन्ती वत्सालोकप्रवर्तिना (abhivarṣantī vatsālokapravartinā) R.1.84.

4) Urine.

5) The overflowing scum of boiling rice.

-vāḥ (pl.)

1) Falling or gushing tears.

2) morbid matter in the body.

-vam A waterfall.

Derivable forms: prasravaḥ (प्रस्रवः).

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Prasrāva (प्रस्राव).—

1) Flowing, oozing.

2) Urine.

3) The overflowing scum of boiling rice.

Derivable forms: prasrāvaḥ (प्रस्रावः).

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

Prasrava (प्रस्रव).—m.

(-vaḥ) 1. Trickling forth, oozing out. 2. A flow, a stream. 3. Milk flowing from a breast or an udder. 4. Urine. m. Plu. Falling tears: See the next.

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Prasrāva (प्रस्राव).—m.

(-vaḥ) 1. Flowing, dropping. 2. Urine. E. pra forth, sru to ooze, aff. ghañ .

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

Prasrava (प्रस्रव).—i. e. pra-sru + a, m. 1. Oozing, dropping, [Johnson's Selections from the Mahābhārata.] 14, 47; [Vikramorvaśī, (ed. Bollensen.)] [distich] 150 (v.r. prasnava, q. cf.). 2. The flowing of milk, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 5, 130. 3. Urine, Mahābhārata 1, 6683.

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Prasrāva (प्रस्राव).—i. e. pra-sru + a, m. 1. Flowing, dropping. 2. Urine.

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

Prasrava (प्रस्रव).—[masculine] the flowing forth, [especially] of the milk from the udder, also the milk itself; gush, flood, stream.

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

1) Prasrava (प्रस्रव):—[=pra-srava] [from pra-sru] m. (often [varia lectio] snava) flowing forth, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] a stream, flow, gush ([literally]and [figuratively]), [ib.]

3) [v.s. ...] a flow of milk ([locative case] ‘when the m° flows from the udder’), [Manu-smṛti ([especially] v, 130); Mahābhārata] etc.

4) [v.s. ...] ([plural]) gushing tears, [Mahābhārata]

5) [v.s. ...] ([plural]) urine, [ib.] ([varia lectio])

6) [v.s. ...] ([plural]) morbid matter in the body, [Caraka]

7) [v.s. ...] the overflow of boiling rice, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

8) [v.s. ...] n. a waterfall, [Rāmāyaṇa] ([Bombay edition])

9) Prasrāva (प्रस्राव):—[=pra-srāva] [from pra-srava > pra-sru] m. flowing, dropping, [Horace H. Wilson]

10) [v.s. ...] urine, [Caraka] ([wrong reading] śrāva)

11) [v.s. ...] the overflowing scum of boiling rice, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Prasrāva (प्रस्राव):—[pra-srāva] (vaḥ) 1. m. Urine; flowing.

[Sanskrit to German]

Prasrava in German

context information

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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Prasrava (ಪ್ರಸ್ರವ):—[adjective] flowing (as a liquid).

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Prasrava (ಪ್ರಸ್ರವ):—

1) [noun] a current or flow of water or other liquid; stream.

2) [noun] a stream of water flowing down from a hill.

3) [noun] urine (being discharged).

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Prasrāva (ಪ್ರಸ್ರಾವ):—

1) [noun] the act or fact of flowing (as of water or other liquid).

2) [noun] discharged urine.

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Pra, Shrava.

Starts with: Prashravas, Prasravadrudhira, Prasravakarana, Prasravakuti, Prasravana, Prasravanajala, Prasravanasika, Prasravani, Prasravasamyukta, Prasravat, Prasravayukta.

Ends with: Snehaprasrava.

Full-text: Prasravakarana, Prasnava, Prasravin, Snehaprasrava, Prasravayukta, Prasravasamyukta, Upalakundaka, Prasravanajala, Prasnavasamyukta, Uccaraprasravasthana, Varcahkuti, Chaka, Gutha, Piracam, Prasravana, Shankara.

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