क्वथित

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kwh₂et- (“to boil, foam”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic квасъ (kvasŭ, “leaven; sour drink”), Latin cāseus (“cheese”).

Pronunciation

Noun

क्वथित • (kvathitá) stem, n

  1. boiled, decocted, stewed
  2. a decoction
  3. a spirituous liquor

References

  • “क्वथित” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 139, column 1.
  • Monier Williams (1899) “Kvathita”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 324, column 3.
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