naga-- serpent king in sanskrit

[Guest guest]

Greetings, linguistic lovers. I am trying to get a depiction of the word naga, for serpent king, in sanskrit. Do any of you posess such knowledge?

 

[Vinayakan 0]

I am not sure about the etymological origin of this word.

Some people explain that naga means "not going".

I don't think so. There is a word naga with both a short, while naga has a long a (naaga). In Hindi pronounced as "Naag".

Naga means "that of he who cannot walk or go" (na gacchhati yaH sa nagaH) and is an ephithet for tree of mountain.

Naaga means snake, paticularly the cobra (Nallapaambu in Tamil). Naaga has also other meanings like: elephant, a kind of demon and shark.

The female form of Naaga is Naagii.

[Guest guest]

so your attachment is naaga? I am looking for that, the serpent.

 

do you study languages? where is your material from?

[Vinayakan 0]

In the attachment is Naga (the serpent)

 

In studied Sanskrit and Indian languages (Kannada, Tamil and Hindi) in India in Kannada, Hindi and Sankskrit medium. Not English.

My material is not in English. The first teaching I received from my family. Then at school and afterwards from the Acharya. Many teachings are "maukhika" (by mouth).

Unfortunately I am not very conversant in English.

[Guest guest]

vinayakan, you seem to do OK with these small messages. more conversations make one more fluent, as you know. My family is indian, but I was raised in western society, europe and the US. happy to speak anytime.

 

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