# पद
## Hindi
### Etymology

From Sanskrit पद (padá).

### Pronunciation

* (Delhi) IPA: /pəd̪/, [pɐd̪]

### Noun

पद • (pad) m (Urdu spelling پد)
* foot
* footstep
* footprint
* mark
* sign
* home, abode
* degree, rank
* office
* verse, line
* head, title

#### Declension
## Konkani
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pəd]

### Noun

पद • (pad) n (Latin script pod, Kannada script ಪದ್)
* song
    Synonym: गीत (gīt)

### References

* Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017) IndoWordNet‎

## Nepali
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pʌd̪]
* Phonetic Devanagari: पद्

### Noun

पद • (pad)
* rank
* post, position

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* pada (Latin script)
* 𑀧𑀤 (Brahmi script)
* পদ (Bengali script)
* පද (Sinhalese script)
* ပဒ or ပၻ (Burmese script)
* ปท or ปะทะ (Thai script)
* ᨷᨴ (Tai Tham script)
* ປທ or ປະທະ (Lao script)
* បទ (Khmer script)
* 𑄛𑄘 (Chakma script)

### Noun

पद n
* Devanagari script form of pada (“foot”)
** c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work in Pali), page 250; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:अथ सब्बासं विभत्तीनं यानि यानि पुब्बानि छ पदानि तानि तानि परस्सपदसञ्ञानि होन्ति।Atha sabbāsaṃ vibhattīnaṃ yāni yāni pubbāni cha padāni, tāni tāni parassapadasaññāni honti.Then whatever are the first six endings of all the endings, they are called the active endings.

#### Declension
## Sanskrit
### Alternative forms

* पाद (pāda)

### Alternative scripts

* পদ (Assamese script)
* ᬧᬤ (Balinese script)
* পদ (Bengali script)
* 𑰢𑰟 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀧𑀤 (Brahmi script)
* ပဒ (Burmese script)
* પદ (Gujarati script)
* ਪਦ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌪𑌦 (Grantha script)
* ꦥꦢ (Javanese script)
* 𑂣𑂠 (Kaithi script)
* ಪದ (Kannada script)
* បទ (Khmer script)
* ປທ (Lao script)
* പദ (Malayalam script)
* ᢒᠠᡩᠠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘢𑘟 (Modi script)
* ᢒᠠᢑᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
* 𑧂𑦿 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐥𑐡 (Newa script)
* ପଦ (Odia script)
* ꢦꢣ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆥𑆢 (Sharada script)
* 𑖢𑖟 (Siddham script)
* පද (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩰𑩭 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚞𑚛 (Takri script)
* பத³ (Tamil script)
* పద (Telugu script)
* ปท (Thai script)
* པ་ད (Tibetan script)
* 𑒣𑒠 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨞𑨛 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *padám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *padám, from Proto-Indo-European *pedóm, originally meaning 'trace, bottom', from *ped- (“step, footprint”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πέδον (pédon, “floor, ground”), Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒁕𒀭 (pēdan, “floor, ground; place”), Old Norse fet (“step”), Old Armenian հետ (het, “footprint, track”).

### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /pɐ.dɐ́/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /pɐ.d̪ɐ/

### Noun

पद • (padá) stem, n (rarely m)
* step, pace, stride
* footstep, trace, vestige, mark; the foot itself
** c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.133.2:अ॒भि॒व्लग्या॑ चिदद्रिवः शी॒र्षा या॑तु॒मती॑नाम्। छि॒न्धि व॑टू॒रिणा॑ प॒दा म॒हाव॑टूरिणा प॒दा॥abhivlágyā cidadrivaḥ śīrṣā́ yātumátīnām. chindhí vaṭūríṇā padā́ mahā́vaṭūriṇā padā́.Devourer of foes having trampled on the heads of the malignant hosts, crush them with your wide-spreading foot; your vast wide-spreading foot.
* sign, token, characteristic
* footing, standpoint
* position, rank, station, site, abode, home, place
** c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.22.20:तद्विष्णोः॑ पर॒मं प॒दं सदा॑ पश्यन्ति सू॒रयः॑। दि॒वी॑व॒ चक्षु॒रात॑तम्॥tádvíṣṇoḥ paramáṃ padáṃ sádā paśyanti sūráyaḥ. divī̀va cákṣurā́tatam.The wise ever contemplate that supreme station of Viṣṇu, as the eye ranges over the sky.
* business affair, matter, object or cause of (genitive or compound)
* pretext
* part, portion, division
* (chess) square on a chessboard
* plot of ground
* the foot as a measure of length (= 12 or 15 fingers' breadth, or 1/2 or 1/3 or 3/7 of a प्रक्रम (prakrama))
* ray of light
* (poetry) a verse, a quarter or line of a stanza
* a word or an inflected word or the stem of a noun in the middle cases and before some तद्धित (taddhita)s
* = पदपाठ (pada-pāṭha)
* common name of the parasmaipada and ātmanepada
* any one in a set of numbers the sum of which is required
* a period in an arithmetical progression
* square root
* quadrant
* protection

#### Declension

* ¹Vedic
* ¹Vedic

#### Descendants

* Pali: pada
* → Old Javanese: pada
* → Tamil: பாதம் (pātam), பதவி (patavi)
* → Telugu: పదము (padamu)
* → Bengali: পদ (pod)

### References

* ↑ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “padá-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 78-9

### Further reading

* Monier Williams (1899) “पद”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0583/1.
* Alexander Lubotsky, A Rgvedic Word Concordance, American Oriental Society, 1997, lemma padá