छन्दस्
Sanskrit
noun
Definitions
- desire, longing for, yearning, will
- intention, purport
- (Hinduism) a sacred hymn of the Atharvaveda, as distinguished from those of Rigveda and Samaveda, incantation-hymn
- (prosody) metre
- metrical science
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *sḱend-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sḱend-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- scando Latin
- superscando Latin
- *skend- Proto-Indo-European
- *sḱend- Proto-Indo-European
- छंद Hindi