apsaras | अप्सरस् | apsaras
ap-saras | अप्-सरस् | See s.v.
ap-sara/s | अप्-सर/स् | ās | आस् | [RV.; AV. &c.], or ap-sarā/ | अप्-सरा/ | [AV. &c.], f. (fr. 2. a/p | अ/प् | + √ sf | स्फ़् |), ‘going in the waters or between the waters of the clouds’, a class of female divinities (sometimes called ‘nymphs’; they inhabit the sky, but often visit the earth; they are the wives of the Gandharvas (q.v.) and have the faculty of changing their shapes at will; they are fond of the water; one of their number, Rambhā, is said to have been produced at the churning of the ocean).
ap-sara/s | अप्-सर/स् | ās | आस् | [RV.; AV. &c.], or ap-sarā/ | अप्-सरा/ | [AV. &c.], f. (fr. 2. a/p | अ/प् | + √ sf | स्फ़् |), ‘going in the waters or between the waters of the clouds’, a class of female divinities (sometimes called ‘nymphs’; they inhabit the sky, but often visit the earth; they are the wives of the Gandharvas (q.v.) and have the faculty of changing their shapes at will; they are fond of the water; one of their number, Rambhā, is said to have been produced at the churning of the ocean).