Word history
Monier-Williams (1899) records ghoṣa with the sense “sound, proclamation”. Ghoṣa covers several kinds of audible sound. Monier-Williams records cries and noise as well as the sound of instruments, and separately records a proclamation. ঘোষ is the Bengali written form of the surname. The English spelling sh represents its final consonant; the dictionary’s several senses are kept within the field of sound.
Sources: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword ghoṣa, page 378, column 1, entry L69850 · Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword ghoṣa, page 378, column 1, entry L69857 · Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword ghoṣa, page 378, column 1, entry L69851
Literal dictionary sense
ghoṣa: Sound.
Native-script forms
Sources and attribution
- Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword ghoṣa, page 378, column 1, entry L69850
- Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword ghoṣa, page 378, column 1, entry L69857
- Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword ghoṣa, page 378, column 1, entry L69851
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