प्रश्न

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रश्न (praśna).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pɾəʃ.nᵊ/, [pɾɐʃ.nᵊ], /pɾəʃ.nə/, [pɾɐʃ.nɐ], /pɾə.ʃən/, [pɾɐ.ʃɐ̃n]

प्रश्न • (praśn) m (Urdu spelling پرشن)

1. question, query, problem, interrogation

   Synonym: सवाल (savāl)

   मैंने उसके सब प्रश्नों के उत्तर दे दिए हैं।

   ma͠ine uske sab praśnõ ke uttar de die ha͠i.

   I have answered all his questions.

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “प्रश्न”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.

प्रश्न • (praśna) m (Latin script ?, Kannada script ?)

1. question

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रश्न (praśna).

• IPA^(key): /pɾəɕ.nə/
• Hyphenation: प्रश्‧न, प्रश्न
• Rhymes: -ə

प्रश्न • (praśna) m

1. question
2. query, problem

   Synonym: शंका (śaṅkā)

• उत्तर (uttar, “answer”)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “प्रश्न”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रश्न (praśna).

• IPA^(key): [prʌsnʌ]
• Phonetic Devanagari: प्रस्न

प्रश्न • (praśna)

1. question

   प्रश्न गर्नु ― praśna garnu ― to question, to interrogate

   प्रश्न सोध्नु ― praśna sodhnu ― to ask a question, to question

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *praśnás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *praćnás, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-nó-s or *ploḱ-nó-s, from *pleḱ- (“to fold, weave”). Cognate with Latin plecto, Ancient Greek πλοκή (plokḗ).^[1]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɾɐɕ.nɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /pɾɐɕ.n̪ɐ/

प्रश्न • (praśná) stem, m

1. basket-work, a plaited basket
2. (by commentator) "a turban"

From the root प्रछ् (prach) +‎ -न (-na), whence पृच्छति (pṛccháti, “to ask, question, interrogate”).^[2]

प्रश्न • (praśná) stem, m

1. question, demand, interrogation, query, inquiry; also in compounds:

   कुशलप्रश्न (kúśala-praśna) — friendly enquiry after a person's health or welfare, salutation

2. (law) judicial inquiry or examination

   साक्षिप्रश्न (sā-kṣi-praśna) — interrogation of witnesses

3. (astrology) astrological inquiry into the future

   दिव्यप्रश्न (divyá-praśna) — inquiring into divine phenomena, augury

   देवप्रश्न (devá-praśna) — "consulting the gods", fortune-telling

   दैवप्रश्न (daíva-praśna) — inquiring of fate, astrology

4. a subject of inquiry, point at issue, controversy, problem

   प्रत्नम् प्रब्रवीति (praśnam pra-√brū) — to decide a controverted point

   प्रत्नम् एति (praśnam √i) (+ accusative) or प्रत्नम् आ गच्छति (praśnam ā √gam) (+locative of person) — to lay a question before any one for decision

   प्रश्नस् तव पितरि (praśnas tava pitari) — the point at issue is before thy father

5. a task or lesson (in Vedic recitation)
6. a short section or paragraph (in books)

• → Burmese: ပြဿနာ (pra.ssa.na)
• → Hindi: प्रश्न (praśna) (learned)
• → Khmer: ប្រស្នា (prɑsnaa)
• → Kannada: ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ (praśne) (learned)
• → Malayalam: പ്രശ്നം (praśnaṁ) (learned)
• → Marathi: praśna (learned)

  Devanagari script: प्रश्न

  Modi script: 𑘢𑘿𑘨𑘫𑘿𑘡

• → Punjabi: ਪ੍ਰਸ਼ਨ (praśan) (learned)
• → Tamil: பிரச்சனை (piraccaṉai) (learned)
• → Telugu: ప్రశ్న (praśna) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “प्रश्न”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 695/3.