स्तन
Sanskrit
noun
Definitions
- the female breast (either human or animal), teat, dug, udder
- the nipple (of the female or the male breast)
- a kind of pin or peg on a vessel shaped like a teat
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *(p)stánas inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pstánas inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (teat, nipple, breast).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pstḗn
Gloss
teat, nipple, breast
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sattva English
- sebesten English
- stetho- English
- *pistanna Latin
- sebesteno Italian
- speen Dutch, Flemish
- stéthoscope French
- sébeste French
- sebestén Spanish, Castilian
- παρθένος Ancient Greek
- στήνιον Ancient Greek
- στῆθος Ancient Greek
- *psten-os- Proto-Indo-European
- *pstḗn Proto-Indo-European
- stetoskop Norwegian Bokmål
- *spenô Proto-Germanic
- 薩埵 Japanese
- stetoskop Norwegian Nynorsk
- spane Old English
- उरङ्ग Sanskrit
- सत् Sanskrit
- सत्त्व Sanskrit
- sine Irish
- speni Old Norse
- سبستان Arabic
- थन Hindi
- պստիկ Armenian
- پستان Persian
- สัตว์ Thai
- στήθος Greek (modern)
- siniu, sine Old Irish
- satwa Malay
- သတ္တဝါ Burmese
- *sɸenyos Proto-Celtic
- 有情 Chinese
- 薩埵 Chinese
- camma Pali
- ghāta Pali
- satta Pali
- thana Pali
- થાન Gujarati
- *pstánas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- ថនិកសត្វ Central Khmer
- ថនៈ Central Khmer
- សត្វ Central Khmer
- សត្វឃាតស្ថាន Central Khmer
- spenys Lithuanian
- *(p)stánas Proto-Indo-Aryan
- pystʾn' Middle Persian
- 𑀣𑀡 Sauraseni Prakrit
- 𑀣𑀡 Maharastri Prakrit
- ສັດ Lao
- ಸ್ತನ Kannada
- päścane Tocharian B
- សត្វ Old Khmer
- ᮞᮒᮧ Sundanese