अरण

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂él-eno-s, from the root *h₂el- (“other, foreign”). Cognate with Latin alius (whence English alien), Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos), Old English elles (whence English else).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́.ɾɐ.ɳɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ.ɾɐ.ɳɐ/

अरण • (áraṇa) stem

1. strange, foreign
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.75.19:

     यो नः स्वो अरणो यश्च निष्ट्यो जिघांसति।
     देवास्तं सर्वे धूर्वन्तु ब्रह्म वर्म ममान्तरम्॥

     yó naḥ svó áraṇo yáśca níṣṭyo jíghāṃsati
     devā́stám sárve dhūrvantu bráhma várma mámā́ntaram

     Whoso would wish kill us, whether he be a strange foe or one of us,
     May all the gods discomfit him. My nearest, closest armour is prayer.

2. distant

• अरण्य (áraṇya, “foreign land”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “अरण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 86.