वृषभ

Sanskrit

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Definitions
  • a bull (used as an epithet of various gods in the Vedas)
  • the chief, most excellent or eminent, lord or best among (in later language mostly at the end of a compound, or with genitive)
  • (astrology) the zodiacal sign Taurus
  • a particular drug (described as a root brought from the Himalaya mountains, resembling the horn of a bull, of cooling and tonic properties, and serviceable in catarrh and consumption)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)r̥šabʰás inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥sn̥-bʰó-s.

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*wr̥sn̥-bʰó-s

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