पाश

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /pɑːʃ/, [päːʃ]

Borrowed from Classical Persian پاشیدن (pāšīdan).

पाश • (pāś) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling پاش)

1. (chiefly in compounds) scattered, broken into pieces

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit पाश (pā́śa). Doublet of फाँस (phā̃s).

पाश • (pāś) m (Urdu spelling پاش)

1. noose
2. net, snare, clutches

• Platts, John T. (1884) “पाश”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “पाश”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *paHćás, from Proto-Indo-European *poh₂ḱ-ó-s, from *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, tie, fasten”). Cognate with Middle Persian pštk' (paštag, “bond”), Parthian [script needed] (pštg, “bound, fettered”), Avestan 𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀-𐬞𐬀𐬱𐬁𐬝 (auua-pašāt̰, 3rd person singular subjunctive), Proto-Germanic *fōgijaną (“to join together”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɑ́ː.ɕɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.ɕɐ/

पाश • (pā́śa) stem, m

1. a noose, cord, bond, chain or a fetter; a snare, trap (literally and figuratively)
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 7.88.7:

     ध्रुवासु त्वासु क्षितिषु क्षियन्तो व्यस्मत्पाशं वरुणो मुमोचत् ।
     अवो वन्वाना अदितेरुपस्थाद्यूयं पात स्वस्तिभिः सदा नः ॥

     dhruvāsu tvāsu kṣitiṣu kṣiyanto vyasmatpāśaṃ varuṇo mumocat.
     avo vanvānā aditerupasthādyūyaṃ pāta svastibhiḥ sadā naḥ.

     While we abide in these fixed habitations, and from the lap of Aditi win favour,
     May Varuṇa untie the bond that binds us. Preserve us evermore, ye Gods, with blessings.

   1. (especially) the noose carried by Shiva, Yama or Varuna
2. anything that binds or fetters the soul; the outer world, nature
3. selvage, edge, border (of anything woven)

• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀧𑀸𑀲 (pāsa)
• Pali: pāsa
• → Tamil: பாசம் (pācam)

Sanskritized from Prakrit pāsa (“dice”), which is from Sanskrit प्रास (prāsa, “throwing, casting [a dice]”), प्रास्यति (prāsyati, “to throw, cast; to lay a wager”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.ɕɐ/

पाश • (pāśa) stem, m

1. a die, dice

   Synonym: प्रास (prāsa)

• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “pāśa”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Monier Williams (1899) “पाश”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 623.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pāśa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pā́śa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) “*pas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 299
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “pā́śa-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 125