प्रश्न m. 1.m. basket-work, a plaited basket,
[Kauś.] (
Sch. ‘a turban’).
प्रश्न m. 2.m. (√
प्रछ्) a question, demand, interrogation, query, inquiry after (
comp. ;
cf. कुशल-प्°),
[ŚBr.] &c. &c.
साक्षि-प् judicial inquiry or examination (
cf. )
दिव्य astrological inquiry into the future (
cf. -,
देव-,
दैव-प्°)
प्रश्नम् a subject of inquiry, point at issue, controversy, problem,
[ŚBr.] &c. &c. (
प्र-√ ब्रू, ‘to decide a controverted point’;
नम् √
इ, with
acc. or
°नम्आ √
गम्, with
loc. of
pers. , ‘to lay a question before any one for decision’;
प्रश्नस् तव पितरि, ‘the point at issue is before thy father’)
a task or lesson (in Vedic recitation),
[RPrāt.] a short section or paragraph (in books),
[Col. &c.]