शव

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit शव (śava).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃəʋ/, [ʃɐʋ]

शव • (śav) m (Urdu spelling شو)

1. corpse, dead body

   मलबे के नीचे से कई शव मिले। ― malbe ke nīce se kaī śav mile. ― Many dead bodies were recovered from the debris.

   नेताजी का शव भारत लाया गया। ― netājī kā śav bhārat lāyā gayā. ― The dead body of the leader was brought to India.

• लाश (lāś)

• शवदाह (śavdāh, “cremation”)
• शवस्थान (śavsthān, “crematorium”)
• शवपरीक्षा (śavprīkṣā, “autopsy, post-mortem”)
• शवशाला (śavśālā, “mortuary”)
• शवसंस्कार (śavsanskār, “funeral rites”)

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “शव”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “शव”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House

Borrowed from Dravidian, compare Tamil சாவு (cāvu). Traditionally derived from शू (śū, “to swell”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɐ́.ʋɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɕɐ.ʋɐ/

शव • (śáva) stem, m or n

1. corpse

• Assamese: শ (xo)
• Hindustani: sau
  • Hindi: सौ
  • Urdu: سَوْ
• Pali: sava
• Prakrit: 𑀙𑀯 (chava)
  • Sinhalese: සවය (sawaya), සැවය (sæwaya)
• Punjabi: sivā

  Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਵਾ

  Shahmukhi script: سِوا

• → Bengali: শব (śobo)

• Apte, Macdonell (2022) “शव”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śava”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Monier Williams (1899) “शव”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1059, column 3.