As a Hindi name
घास · noun · masculine
१ आहार । खाद्यपदार्थ · चार । तृण — Śabdasāgara
घास · noun · feminine
पृथ्वी पर उगनेवाले छोटे छोटे उदिभद् जिन्हें चौपाए चरते हैं । तृण । चारा · एक प्रकार का रेशमी कपड़ा · कागज पन्नी आदि के महीन कटे हुए टुकड़े जो ताजिए या और किसी वस्तु पर सजावट के लिये चिपकाए जाती हैं — Śabdasāgara
घास · ghās · s.f.
Grass; hay; straw; fodder — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 929
घास · feminine
grass; fodder
Cited formation "घास" is घ + -आस: घ means "the fourth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आस forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit घास — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰas- Sanskrit घस् (ghas) Sanskrit घास (ghāsa) Prakrit 𑀖𑀸𑀲 (ghāsa) Hindi घास Inherited from Prakrit 𑀖𑀸𑀲 (ghāsa), from Sanskrit घास (ghāsa), from the root घस् (ghas, “to eat, devour”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
ghāsa m. (Pāṇ. ii, 4, 38; vi, 2, 144) food, meadow or pasture grass, AV. (ghāsād ghāsam, ‘one bit after the other’, gradually, xviii, 2, 26), VS.; TS. vi; TBr. i; MBh. &c.
ghāsa , ˚saka, ˚si See √ ghas.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
food, meadow or pasture grass, (ghāsād ghāsam, ‘one bit after the other’, gradually, ), &c.
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ghāsa m. (Pāṇ. ii, 4, 38; vi, 2, 144) food, meadow or pasture grass, AV. (ghāsād ghāsam, ‘one bit after the other’, gradually, xviii, 2, 26), VS.; TS. vi; TBr. i; MBh. &c.
ghāsa , ˚saka, ˚si See √ ghas.
ghāsa m. (-saḥ) Meadow or pasture grass. E. ghasa to eat, ghañ affix; what is eaten by animals.
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