Hindi

Noun

मेघ • ‎(megh) m ‎(Urdu spelling میگھ)

1. cloud (visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air)

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

मेघ m

1. cloud
2. rain

Declension

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃moygʰos ‎(“fog, cloud”). Cognates include Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬉𐬖𐬀 ‎(maēγa-, “cloud”), Persian میغ ‎(meġ, “cloud, fog”), Old Armenian մէգ ‎(mēg); compare also Ancient Greek ὀμίχλη ‎(omíkhlē, “mist, fog”) (modern Greek ομίχλη ‎(omíchli)), Russian мгла ‎(mgla), Polish mgła, Latvian migla, and Albanian mjegull from a related root.

Noun

मेघ • ‎(meghá) m

1. cloud (visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air)

   मेघाकाशे भ्राम्यन्ति।

2. a mass, multitude
3. (in music) a particular rāga

Declension

Descendants

References

Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0831