Everything about Ap Water totally explained
Ap is the
Vedic Sanskrit term for "water", in
Classical Sanskrit occurring only in the plural,
(sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, ), whence
Hindi . The term is from
PIE hxap "water".
The
Indo-Iranian word survives also, as the
Persian word for water,
Aab, for example in
Punjab (from "five waters"). In archaic
ablauting contractions, the
laryngeal of the PIE root remains visible in Vedic Sanskrit, for example "against the current", from
*. The word has many cognates in archaic European toponyms (for example
Mess-apia, perhaps also
Avon).
In the
Rigveda, several hymns are dedicated to "the waters" : 7.49, 10.9, 10.30, 10.47. In the oldest of these, 7.49, the waters are connected with the draught of
Indra (
Soma, referred to as "the offspring of water",
[[ApamNapat|]]).
In
Hindu philosophy, the term refers to
water as an element, one of the
Panchamahabhuta, or "five great elements". In
Hinduism, it's also the name of the
deva, a
personification of water, (one of the
Vasus in most later
Puranic lists).
In the Thai language, "ap" refers to a splashing of water, and "nam" is water. Therefore a showerbath is called "ap nam". Many Thai words have roots in Sanskrit.
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