हेमन्त

Pali

Alternative scripts

हेमन्त m

Declension table of "हेमन्त" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	हेमन्तो (hemanto)	हेमन्ता (hemantā)
Accusative (second)	हेमन्तं (hemantaṃ)	हेमन्ते (hemante)
Instrumental (third)	हेमन्तेन (hemantena)	हेमन्तेहि (hemantehi) or हेमन्तेभि (hemantebhi)
Dative (fourth)	हेमन्तस्स (hemantassa) or हेमन्ताय (hemantāya) or हेमन्तत्थं (hemantatthaṃ)	हेमन्तानं (hemantānaṃ)
Ablative (fifth)	हेमन्तस्मा (hemantasmā) or हेमन्तम्हा (hemantamhā) or हेमन्ता (hemantā)	हेमन्तेहि (hemantehi) or हेमन्तेभि (hemantebhi)
Genitive (sixth)	हेमन्तस्स (hemantassa)	हेमन्तानं (hemantānaṃ)
Locative (seventh)	हेमन्तस्मिं (hemantasmiṃ) or हेमन्तम्हि (hemantamhi) or हेमन्ते (hemante)	हेमन्तेसु (hemantesu)
Vocative (calling)	हेमन्त (hemanta)	हेमन्ता (hemantā)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰaymantás, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeyméns, from *ǵʰey- (“winter”). Cognate with Latin hībernum (“winter”), Ancient Greek χεῖμᾰ (kheîmă), Persian (zemestân), Old Armenian ձմեռն (jmeṙn), Avestan 𐬰𐬌𐬌𐬃 (ziiā̊, “winter”).

हेमन्त • (hemantá) stem, m

winter, the cold season
- c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.161.4:
  शतं जीव शरदो वर्धमानः शतं हेमन्ताञ् छतम् उ वसन्तान्।
  śataṃ jīva śarado vardhamānaḥ śataṃ hemantāñ chatam u vasantān.
  Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.

Masculine a-stem declension of हेमन्त
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	हेमन्तः (hemantáḥ)	हेमन्तौ (hemantaú) हेमन्ता¹ (hemantā́¹)	हेमन्ताः (hemantā́ḥ) हेमन्तासः¹ (hemantā́saḥ¹)
accusative	हेमन्तम् (hemantám)	हेमन्तौ (hemantaú) हेमन्ता¹ (hemantā́¹)	हेमन्तान् (hemantā́n)
instrumental	हेमन्तेन (hemanténa)	हेमन्ताभ्याम् (hemantā́bhyām)	हेमन्तैः (hemantaíḥ) हेमन्तेभिः¹ (hemantébhiḥ¹)
dative	हेमन्ताय (hemantā́ya)	हेमन्ताभ्याम् (hemantā́bhyām)	हेमन्तेभ्यः (hemantébhyaḥ)
ablative	हेमन्तात् (hemantā́t)	हेमन्ताभ्याम् (hemantā́bhyām)	हेमन्तेभ्यः (hemantébhyaḥ)
genitive	हेमन्तस्य (hemantásya)	हेमन्तयोः (hemantáyoḥ)	हेमन्तानाम् (hemantā́nām)
locative	हेमन्ते (hemanté)	हेमन्तयोः (hemantáyoḥ)	हेमन्तेषु (hemantéṣu)
vocative	हेमन्त (hémanta)	हेमन्तौ (hémantau) हेमन्ता¹ (hémantā¹)	हेमन्ताः (hémantāḥ) हेमन्तासः¹ (hémantāsaḥ¹)

Dardic:
- Phalura: ہیواند (heewaánd)
Pali: hemanta
- → Burmese: ဟေမန္တ (hemanta.), ဟေမန် (heman) (learned)
- → Khmer: ហេមន្ត (heemɑn) (learned)
Prakrit: 𑀳𑁂𑀫𑀁𑀢 (hemaṃta)
- Hindustani:
  Hindi: हेवंत (hevant)
- Romani: ivend
→ Bengali: হেমন্ত (hemôntô) (learned)
→ Kannada: ಹೇಮಂತ (hēmanta) (learned)
→ Malayalam: ഹേമന്തം (hēmantaṁ) (learned)
→ Tamil: ஹேமந்தம் (hēmantam), ஏமந்தம் (ēmantam) (learned)
→ Telugu: హేమంతము (hēmantamu) (learned)
→ Thai: เหมันต์ (hěe-man) (learned)

Monier Williams (1899) “हेमन्त”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1304, column 1.
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 819-20
Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “hemantá-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 226