पश्चात्
Hindi
Alternative forms
- पश्चात (paścāt)
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit पश्चात् (paścāt).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /pəʃ.t͡ʃɑːt̪/, [pəʃ.t͡ʃäːt̪]
Adverb
पश्चात् • (paścāt)
- afterwards, then, after
- अनेक व्यक्ति सोचे हैं, मृत्यु के पश्चात् क्या होता है।
- anek vyakti soce ha͠i, mŕtyu ke paścāt kyā hotā hai.
- Many people have thought "what happens after death?"
- Synonyms: बाद (bād), उपरांत (uprānt)
Derived terms
- पश्चात्ताप (paścāttāp)
- के पश्चात् (ke paścāt)
References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “पश्चात्”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 614
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *pasčaH, from Proto-Indo-European *pos-kʷéh₁, from *pós (“afterwards, behind”). Cognate with Latin post (“afterwards, behind”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬗𐬀 (pasca), Old Persian [Term?] (/pasā/). Related to पश्चा (paścā).
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /pɐɕ.t͡ɕɑ́ːt/
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpɐɕ.t͡ɕɑːt̪/
Adverb
पश्चात् • (paścā́t)
- from behind, in the rear, behind, backwards
- c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
- from the west, westward
- c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda
- after, hereafter, later, at last
- c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
Descendants
- → Hindi: पश्चात् (paścāt, “then, next; finally; complete, finished.”)
- → Old Javanese: paścat
- → Balinese: ᬧᬰ᭄ᬘᬢ (pascat, “perfect”)