Bopp, Glossarium Sanscritum (BOP)
BOP is Franz Bopp's Glossarium Sanscritum (1847) — a Sanskrit→Latin glossary by the
founder of comparative Indo-European grammar. Its hallmark is comparative etymology:
entries cite Latin, Germanic, and other cognates. Glosses are in Latin.
At a glance
| Code | BOP (GitHub repo BOP) |
| Full title | Glossarium Sanscritum |
| Author | Franz Bopp |
| Year / size | 1847 · ~420 pages |
| Direction | Sanskrit → Latin |
| Accents | No |
| Source | csl-orig/v02/bop/ |
| Open | Basic · List · Advanced · Mobile |
| Data | Downloads |
| csl-doc | bop.rst |
When to use it
Reach for BOP for the comparative-philology lens of the 1840s — Latin glosses and
Indo-European cognates by the discipline's founder. It is a historical/etymological resource,
not a modern reference; for that use Monier-Williams (MW).
Looking up a word
Open the Basic display, pick your input/output transliteration (see Encoding & Transliteration), and type the headword. The List and Advanced displays browse and search inside entries — see Search & Display.
Reading an entry
Bopp gives the SLP1 headword in {#…#}, Latin glosses in {%…%}, and the root and cognates.
The entry aṃśa (csl-orig/v02/bop/bop.txt):
<L>4<pc>001-a<k1>aMSa<k2>aMSa
{#aMSa#}¦ {%m.%} (r. {#aMS#} s. {#a#}) 1) pars, portio. 2) humerus. SAK. 22.6.infr.
(cf. germ. vet. {%ahsala%}, lat. {%axilla%}, v. sq, {#aMSala#}). Scribitur etiam {#aMsa#}.
| In the source | Meaning |
|---|---|
{#aMSa#} | the headword (SLP1 search key <k1>) |
{%m.%} | grammatical category (masculine) |
(r. {#aMS#}) | the root (aṃś) |
pars, portio · humerus | the Latin glosses ("part, portion"; "shoulder") |
cf. germ. vet. ahsala, lat. axilla | the cognates — Old German ahsala, Latin axilla |
See Data Formats for the markup reference.
What makes it distinctive
- By the founder of comparative IE grammar. Bopp's etymological lens throughout.
- Latin glosses + cognates. Each entry can cite Latin, Germanic, etc. parallels.
Headword key conventions
<k1> = <k2> = SLP1 stem. Glosses are in Latin; the dictionary identifies the derivational root explicitly with (r. {#…#}) inline.
| Convention | Marker / form | Example | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search key | SLP1 stem | aMSa | k1 = k2 |
| Root citation | (r. {#root#} s. {#suffix#}) | (r. {#aMS#} s. {#a#}) | Root (r.) + suffix (s.) in parentheses |
| Latin gloss | Plain Latin text | pars, portio | No Latin wrapper tag — glosses run in the body |
| Cognate notes | cf. germ. vet. …, lat. … | cf. germ. vet. ahsala | Inline comparative grammar |
Abbreviations
Literary sources 34
Show 34 abbreviations
| A. | 1) Atmanêpadum. 2) Arg'uni reditus ex Indri coelo. (*) |
| AM. | Amara- Kôscha. |
| BH. | Bhagavad-Gita. |
| BHATT. | Bhatti – Kâvya. |
| BHAR. | Bhartriharis (ed. Bohlen). |
| BR. | Brahmani lamentatio. (**) |
| DEV. | Dêvîmâhâtmya (ed. Poley. Berol. apud Ferd. Dümmler). |
| DR. | Draupadiae raptus (in libro meo «Diluvium»). |
| GHAT. | Ghatakarpara (ed. Dursch. Berol. apud F. Dümmler). |
| GITA-G. | Gîta-Govinda ed. Lassen. |
| H. | Hidimbi caedes. (**) |
| HIT. | Hitopadesa (ed. Bonn.) |
| IN. | Indralôkågamanam. (**) |
| K. | Kâs'inâthus, grammaticus indicus, cujus radicum collectionem edidit Wilkinsius (The radicals of the Sanscrita Language, London 1815). (****) |
| Lass. | Lassenii Anthologia Sanscritica. |
| M. | Matsyôpâkhyâna, i.e. episodium de diluvio. |
| MAH. | Mahâ- Bhârata ed. Calc. |
| MAN. | Manu-Sâstra. |
| MR. | Mric c'akatî. |
| N. | Nalus (Berol. apud Nicolai). |
| P. | 1) Parasmaipadum. 2) Påtaliputra (ed. H. Brockhaus. Lipsiae 1835.) |
| PAN. | Pâninis. |
| RAGH. | Raghu-Vansa (ed. Stenzler). |
| RAM. | Râmâyana ed. Seramp. |
| R. Schl. | Schlegelii editio Râmâyanae. |
| RIGV. | Rigveda-Sanhitae liber primus (sanscrite et latine edidit Fr. Rosen, cujus versionem locis laudatis apposui). |
| RIGV. V. | Rigvêdae liber quintus, cujus exempla e Vas'is thi hymnis sumta affert Westergardius in libro suo Radices |
| RIGV. Sp. | Fr. Rosenii Rigva - Specimen. |
| SA. | episodium de Sâvitria. (**) |
| SAK. | Sakuntala ed. Chézy. |
| SU. | Sundus et Upasundus. (***) |
| UP. | Upakôsa (in libro «Pâtaliputra» ed. Brockhaus). |
| UR. | Urvasia (ed. Lenz, Berol., apud Ferd. Dümmler). |
| V. | Vôpadêvus grammaticus cujus radicum corpus, Kavikalpadruma inscriptum, edidit W. Carey in grammaticâ suâ. Westerg. est Westergardii liber Radices sanscritae inscriptus. |
Grammatical & general 9
| A. | 1) Atman�padum. 2) Arg'uni reditus ex Indri coelo. (*) |
| gr. | grammatica critica linguae Sanscritae. (***) |
| gr. comp. | grammatica comparativa (�Vergleichende Grammatik etc.�) Numeri indicant paragraphos. |
| Hib. | Ga�licum dialecti Hibernicae. |
| Lith. | Lithuanicum. |
| P. | 1) Parasmaipadum. 2) P�taliputra (ed. H. Brockhaus. Lipsiae 1835.) |
| r. | 1) radix. 2) regula. |
| s. | suffixum. |
| Th. | Thema. |
See also
- Monier-Williams (MW) · Böhtlingk-Roth (PWG)
- The full catalog of all 43 dictionaries
- csl-doc bop.rst