पुच्छ

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha), doublet of पूँछ (pū̃ch), a tadbhava.

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pʊt̪t͡ʃʰ/, [pʊ(t̚)t͡ʃʰ]

पुच्छ • (pucch) m

1. (rare, formal) tail

   Synonyms: दुम (dum), पूँछ (pū̃ch), लांगूल (lāṅgūl)

2. hind-part

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “पुच्छ”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “पुच्छ”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *púšćas (“tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *puḱ-so-s (“tail”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬞𐬎𐬯𐬀 (pusa), Persian فش (foš, “tail”), English fox.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pút.t͡ɕʰɐ/, [pút̚.t͡ɕʰɐ]
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /put̪.t͡ɕʰɐ/, [put̪̚.t͡ɕʰɐ]

पुच्छ • (púccha) stem, m or n

1. tail
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 7.56.8:

     य उभाभ्यां प्रहरसि पुच्छेन चास्येन च ।
     आस्ये न ते विषं किमु ते पुच्छधावसत्॥

     ya ubhābhyāṃ praharasi pucchena cāsyena ca.
     āsye na te viṣaṃ kimu te pucchadhāvasat.

     O you creature who inflicts wounds both with your mouth and with your tail,
     You have no poison in your mouth: what will be at the base of your tail?

2. hind-part

• Bengali: পুচ্ছ (puccho)
• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀧𑀼𑀘𑁆𑀙 (puccha), 𑀧𑀼𑀁𑀙 (puṃcha)
  • Old Marathi: पुंस (puṃsa), पूंस (pūṃsa)
• Pali: puccha
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀧𑀼𑀘𑁆𑀙 (puccha), 𑀧𑀼𑀁𑀙 (puṃcha)
  • Gujarati: પૂંછડી (pū̃chḍī)
  • Hindi: पूँछ (pū̃ch)
  • Punjabi: ਪੂਛ (pūch)

• Monier Williams (1899) “पुच्छ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 631.