उष्

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /úʂ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /uʂ/

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews- (“to burn”). Cognate with Ancient Greek εὕω (heúō), Latin ūrō.

• ओष् (oṣ)

उष् • (uṣ)

1. to burn, burn down
2. to punish, chastise

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From the weak stem *h₂us-s- of Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs, see उषस् (uṣás).

उष् • (úṣ) stem, f (Vedic)

1. archaic weak stem of उषस् (uṣás, “early morning, dawn”), occurring as gen.sg./acc.pl. उषस् (uṣás)
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda

• Monier Williams (1899) “उष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 220, column 1.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 13

• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “OṢ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 281
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “uṣás-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[2] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 236
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “oṣ”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 354
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “uṣás-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 532-3