???????? apsaras, or ??????: apsarah when standing alone, which becomes ?????? apsara in Hindi, from which in turn the English "apsara" presumably is derived. The Monier-Williams et al. (1899) gives the etymology as ??? + ???, "going in the waters or between the waters of the clouds".

The "Apsaras" are widely known as Apsara. Including, In Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese: