वेमन्

From Proto-Indo-European *wéh₁imn̥ (“plaiting, twisting”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, plait”). Cognate with Latin vīmen.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐ́j.mɐn/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋeː.mɐn̪/

वेमन् • (véman) stem, n

1. a loom
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Śukla-Yajurveda (Vājasenayi Saṃhitā) 19.83:

     रसं॑ परि॒स्रुता॒ न रोहि॑तं न॒ग्नहु॒र्धीर॒स्तस॑रं॒ न वेम॑॥

     rásaṃ parisrútā ná róhitaṃ nagnáhurdhī́rastásaraṃ ná véma.

     Like the shuttle through the loom, the steady ferment mixes the red juice with the foaming spirit.

2. a sley; the reed of a loom

• Pali: vema (“loom, shuttle”), vemaka (“id.”)
• Prakrit: 𑀯𑁂𑀫 (vema, “part of weaver's apparatus”)
  • Bengali-Assamese:
    • Assamese: বেঁও (bẽü, “wooden board with holes used for weaving grass mats”), বেঁবা (bẽba, “id.”)
    • Hajong: বেও (“weaving apparatus”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “वेमन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1013.