मेष

From Sanskrit मेष (meṣa).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /meːʂ/, [meːʃ]

मेष • (meṣ) m (Urdu spelling میش)

1. ram

   Synonym: भेड़ (bheṛ)

2. sheep

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From Proto-Indo-European *móysos (“sheep, skin of sheep”). Cognates include Persian میش (meš), Old Irish meiss, Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬉𐬱𐬀 (maēša), Old Prussian moasis.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɐj.ʂɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.ʂɐ/

मेष • (meṣá) stem, m

1. ram, sheep (in the older language applied also to a fleece or anything woollen)
   • RV 1.52.1a

     तयं सु मेषं महया सवर्विदं शतं यस्य सुभ्वः साकमीरते |

     अत्यं न वाजं हवनस्यदं रथमेन्द्रं वव्र्त्यामवसे सुव्र्क्तिभिः ||

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     I GLORIFY that Ram who finds the light of heaven, whose hundred nobly-natured ones go forth with him.

     With hymns may I turn hither Indra to mine aid,—the Car which like a strong steed hasteth to the call.

2. the sign of the zodiac Aries or the first arc of 30 degrees in a circle
3. (botany) a species of plant
4. name of a particular demon

• Hindi: मेष (meṣ)
• Kalasha: meṣ
• Kannada: ಮೇಷ (mēṣa)
• Khmer: មេសា (meisaa)
• Odia: ମେଷ (mesha)
• Tamil: மேஷம் (mēṣam)
• Thai: เมษ (mêet)

• Monier Williams (1899) “मेष”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0833.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “मेष”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 235