युग

Sanskrit

noun
Definitions
  • yoke, team
  • pair, couple, brace
  • a race of men, generation
  • a period or astronomical cycle of 5 (rarely 6) years, a lustrum (especially in the cycle of Jupiter)
  • an age of the world, long mundane period of years
  • a measure of length
  • a symbolical name for the numbers 4 and 12
  • name of a particular position or configuration of the moon

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *yugám inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yugám inherited from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (yoke).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*yugóm

Gloss

yoke

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji

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