पिबति

Sanskrit

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Definitions
  • to drink, quaff, suck, sip, swallow (with accusative, rarely genitive)
  • (figuratively) to imbibe, draw in, appropriate, enjoy, feast upon (with the eyes, ears etc.)
  • to drink up, exhaust, absorb
  • to drink intoxicating liquors
  • (causative) to cause to drink, give to drink, water (horses or cattle)
  • (desiderative) to wish to drink, thirst
  • (desiderative of causative) to wish or intend to give to drink
  • (intensive) to drink greedily or repeatedly

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *píbati inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *píbati inherited from Proto-Indo-European *píbeti.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*píbeti

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