Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ap (áp-) is the Vedic Sanskrit term for \"water\", which in Classical Sanskrit only occurs in the plural, āpas (sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, āpa-), whence Hindi āp. The term is from PIE hxap \"water\".The Indo-Iranian word also survives as the Persian word for water, āb, e.g. in Punjab (from panj-āb \"five waters\"). In archaic ablauting contractions, the laryngeal of the PIE root remains visible in Vedic Sanskrit, e.g."@en }
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- Ap_(water) comment "Ap (áp-) is the Vedic Sanskrit term for \"water\", which in Classical Sanskrit only occurs in the plural, āpas (sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, āpa-), whence Hindi āp. The term is from PIE hxap \"water\".The Indo-Iranian word also survives as the Persian word for water, āb, e.g. in Punjab (from panj-āb \"five waters\"). In archaic ablauting contractions, the laryngeal of the PIE root remains visible in Vedic Sanskrit, e.g.".