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पुमांस् (pumAMs)

 
Macdonell
English
पुमांस् púmāṃs (strg. base
wk. base, púṃs
🞄middle base, pum),
m.
 man, male
homan 🞄being
servant
supreme (para or parama) 🞄soul
masculine (gr.).
Bopp
Latin
पुमांस् v. पुंस्.
Lanman
English
púmāṃs [394], m. man
a male, 59^7
opp.
of strī, e. g. 104^9
pumāṃsaḥ putrās, male
children, 98^20.
Vedic Reference
English
Pumāṃs denotes in the Rigveda^1 and later^2 man as the
‘male.’ It has no special reference to marriage like Pati, or to
heroism like Nṛ or Nara. In grammar it denotes the masculine
gender.^3
1) i. 124, 7
162, 22
iii. 29, 13
iv. 3,
10, etc.
2) Av. iii. 6, 1
23, 3
iv. 4, 4
vi. 11, 2
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, viii. 5,
etc.
3) Nirukta, iii. 8
Śatapatha Brāh-
maṇa, x. 1, 1, 8
5, 1, 3
Cf. iv. 5, 2,
10, and puṃṣā nakṣatreṇa, ‘a Nakṣatra
with a masculine name, ’ in the Bṛhad-
āraṇyaka Upaniṣad, vi. 3, 1.
Grassman
German
púṃs, stark púmāṃs, m., Mann, auch mit dem Gegensatze strī́ ({164, 16}
{415, 6}
{620, 24})
agrū́ ({263, 13})
jāyā́ ({858, 3})
auch 2〉 von Göttern, wo es mehr in dem Sinne Held aufzufassen ist
auch 3〉 mit dem Gen.
-umas [V.] 2〉 soma {721, 7}.
-úmān {415, 8}
{516, 14}
{956, 2}. — 2〉 agnís {299, 10}.
-úmāṃsam {516, 14}
{620, 24} (yātudhā́nam). — 2〉 {263, 13} (agním).
-uṃsás [Ab.] {415, 6}.
-uṃsás [G.] vahatús {858, 3}. — 3〉 kṛṣṭīnā́m {522, 1} (agnés).
-uṃsás [A. pl.] {124, 7}
{164, 16}
neben putrā́n {162, 22}.