-प

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

-ᬧ (Balinese script)
-ပ (Burmese script)
-प (Devanagari script)
-ਪ (Gurmukhi script)
-𑌪 (Grantha script)
-ꦥ (Javanese script)
-𑂣 (Kaithi script)
-ប (Khmer script)
-ປ (Lao script)
-പ (Malayalam script)
-ᢒᠠ (Manchu script)
-𑘢 (Modi script)
-ᢒᠠ (Mongolian script)
-𑧂 (Nandinagari script)
-𑐥 (Newa script)
-ପ (Odia script)
-ꢦ (Saurashtra script)
-𑆥 (Sharada script)
-𑖢 (Siddham script)
-ප (Sinhalese script)
-𑩰 (Soyombo script)
-𑚞 (Takri script)
-ப (Tamil script)
-ป (Thai script)
-་པ (Tibetan script)
-𑨞 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-

Sanskrit पा (pā)

Sanskrit -प (-pa)

From the root पा (pā, “to protect”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɐ/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /pɐ/

Suffix

-प • (-pa) m

protector
‎भू (bhū, “land, earth”) + ‎-प (-pa) → ‎भूप (bhūpa, “protector of land, king”)

‎गो (go, “cow”) + ‎-प (-pa) → ‎प (pa, “protector of cows, cowherd”)

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of -प
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	-पः (-paḥ)	-पौ (-pau) -पा¹ (-pā¹)	-पाः (-pāḥ) -पासः¹ (-pāsaḥ¹)
accusative	-पम् (-pam)	-पौ (-pau) -पा¹ (-pā¹)	-पान् (-pān)
instrumental	-पेन (-pena)	-पाभ्याम् (-pābhyām)	-पैः (-paiḥ) -पेभिः¹ (-pebhiḥ¹)
dative	-पाय (-pāya)	-पाभ्याम् (-pābhyām)	-पेभ्यः (-pebhyaḥ)
ablative	-पात् (-pāt)	-पाभ्याम् (-pābhyām)	-पेभ्यः (-pebhyaḥ)
genitive	-पस्य (-pasya)	-पयोः (-payoḥ)	-पानाम् (-pānām)
locative	-पे (-pe)	-पयोः (-payoḥ)	-पेषु (-peṣu)
vocative	-प (-pa)	-पौ (-pau) -पा¹ (-pā¹)	-पाः (-pāḥ) -पासः¹ (-pāsaḥ¹)

¹Vedic

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms suffixed with -प