putra | पुत्र | putra

putra/ | पुत्र/ | m. (etym. doubtful, perhaps fr. √ 2. puś | पुश् |; traditionally said to be a comp. put-tra | पुत्-त्र |, ‘preserving from the hell called Put’, Mn. ix, 138) a son, child, RV. &c. &c. (also the young of an animal; cf. Pāṇ. viii, 1, 15, Sch.; ifc. it forms diminutives, cf. dfśat-p˚ | द्फ़्शत्-प्˚ | and ṣilā-p˚ | षिला-प्˚ |; voc. sg. du. pl. often used to address young persons, ‘my son, my children &c.’; du. ‘two sons’ or ‘a son and a daughter’; cf. Pāṇ. i, 2, 68)
a species of small venomous animal (= putraka | पुत्रक |), Cat.
(in astrol.) N. of the fifth house, Var.
N. of a son of Brahmiṣṭha, Ragh.
of a son of Priya-vrata, VP. &c. &c.
putra | पुत्र | [cf. Zd. puthra; Gk. παῖς and Lat. puer (?).]

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