Indian cobra
In Sanskrit, a () is a cobra, the Indian cobra ("Naja naja"). A synonym for ' is ' (). There are several words for "snake" in general, and one of the very commonly used ones is ' (). Sometimes the word ' is also used generically to mean "snake". The word is cognate with English 'snake', Germanic: "*snēk-a-", Proto-IE: "*(s)nēg-o-" (with s-mobile).