प्रसार

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रसार (prasāra), related to पंसारी (pansārī). See also पसार (pasār)

Noun

प्रसार • (prasār) m (Urdu spelling پرسار‎)

References

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “prasāra (496)”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Sanskrit

Etymology

प्र- (pra-) +‎ सार (sāra). The resulting verb thereof is प्रसरति (prasarati, “to extend, stretch”)

Noun

प्रसार • (prasāra) m

spreading or stretching out, extension
a trader's shop

Derived terms

प्रसरण (prasaraṇa, “currency”)
प्रसारण (prasāraṇa, “augmentation, increase”)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “प्रसार”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0698.

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