पशु

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Borrowed from Sanskrit पशु (paśu). Doublet of पस (pas).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pə.ʃuː/, [pɐ.ʃuː]

पशु • (paśu) m (Urdu spelling پشو)

1. domesticated animal
2. (rare, chiefly in compounds) cattle

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *páću, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“cattle, livestock”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬎 (pasu, “livestock”), Latin pecū (“cattle”), Old English feoh (“livestock, cattle”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu, “cattle”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɐ.ɕú/, /pɐ́.ɕu/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐ.ɕu/

पशु • (paśú or páśu) stem, m or n

1. cattle, kine
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
2. any domesticated animal
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda

• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀧𑀲𑀼 (pasu), 𐨤𐨭𐨂 (paśu) (Northwest)
  • Gandhari: 𐨤𐨭𐨂 (paśu)
  • Magadhi Prakrit:
    • Assamese: পহু (pohu), পশু (poxu)
  • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀧𑀲𑀼 (pasu)
    • Marathi: पशू (paśū)
  • Paisaci Prakrit:
    • Punjabi: ਪਸੂ (pasū)
  • Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀧𑀲𑀼 (pasu)
    • Hindi: पस (pas, “heifer”)
• Dardic:
  • Kashmiri: پۆش (poś)
• Pali: pasu
  • ⇒ Pali: pasuka
  • → Old Kannada: ಪಸು (pasu)
    • Kannada: ಹಸು (hasu)
• → Cebuano: pasong
• → Kannada: ಪಶು (paśu)
• → Malayalam: പശു (paśu)
• → Tamil: பசு (pacu)
• → Telugu: పశువు (paśuvu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “पशु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 611, column 2.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 108