Sanskrit

Alternative forms

शृंग ‎(śṛṃga)

Noun

शृङ्ग • ‎(śṛṅga) n

1. the horn of an animal, a horn used for various purposes (as in drinking, for blowing, drawing blood from the skin, etc.).
2. the tusk of an elephant.
3. the top or summit of a mountain, a peak, crag.
4. the summit of a building, pinnacle, turret.
5. any peak or projection or lofty object, elevation, point, end, extremity.
6. a cusp or horn of the moon.
7. highest point, acme, height or perfection of anything.
8. the horn as a symbol of self reliance or strength or haughtiness.
9. the rising of desire, excess of love or passion (compare शृङ्गार).
10. a particular military array in the form of a horn or crescent.
11. a syringe, water-engine.
12. the female breast.
13. a lotus.
14. agallochum.
15. a mark, token, sign.
16. ‘hare's horn’, anything impossible or extra ordinary.

Derived terms

• शृङ्गार ‎(śṛṅgāra)
• शृङ्गगिरि ‎(śṛṅgagiri) or शृङ्गेरि ‎(śṛṅgeri)

Noun

शृङ्ग • ‎(śṛṅga) m

1. a kind of medicinal or poisonous plant.
2. Name of a मुनि (of whom, in some parts of India, on occasions of drought, earthen images are said to be made and worshipped for rain).

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 1087