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What is ice cream called in Sanskrit?

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Neha Raj Sharma
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What is ice cream called in Sanskrit?
What is ice cream called in Sanskrit?
Manasi Wangikar
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पयोहिमम् (payohimam)।
पयोहिमम् (payohimam)। पयसः हिमम् (षष्ठी तत्पुरुष समास) is पयोहिमम्. We say पयोहिमम् because पयस् (payas) means milk and हिमम् (himam) means ice. Substance which is frozen and made up of milk is ice cream that is why we call it पयोहिमम् in Sanskrit.