brāska-

From Proto-Iranian *fras-, Khotanese puls-, braṣṭa- (“to ask”). See cognates s.v. Khotanese puls-.

brāska- n or m

1. question
   • 1963, H. W. Bailey, Khotanese Texts V, Cambridge at the University Press, 77, 145v4:

     mājeina salāvänai brāska hvāña

     ‘with our speech by him questions must be uttered’

     • Tibetan:

       བདེ་བར་རབ་སད་ནས་

       bde-bar rab sad-nas (སད (sad, “examine”)).

   • 1968, R. E. Emmerick, The Book of Zambasta, a Khotanese poem on Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 20·21:

     brāske hamu byāta yanāre

     ‘they remember at all times the questions’

• Bailey, H. W. (1979), Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 313