अर्जुन

Borrowed from Sanskrit अर्जुन (arjuna).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /əɾ.d͡ʒʊn/,

अर्जुन • (arjun) m (Urdu spelling اَرْجُن)

1. a male given name, Arjun, from Sanskrit
2. Arjuna (the third of the Pandava princes, in the epic Mahabharata, the son of Kunti and Indra, famed for being an excellent archer)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂érǵ-u-nom (“white, shining; silver”). Cognate with Latin argentum (“silver”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́ɾ.d͡ʑu.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɐɾ.d͡ʑu.n̪ɐ/

अर्जुन • (árjuna) stem

1. white, clear, bright
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.9.1:

     अह॑श्च कृ॒ष्णमह॒र्अर्जु॑नं च॒ वि व॑र्तेते॒ रज॑सी वे॒द्याभि॑:।
     वै॒श्वा॒न॒रो जाय॑मानो॒ न राजावा॑तिर॒ज्ज्योति॑षा॒ग्निस्तमां॑सि॥

     áhaśca kṛṣṇámáharárjunaṃ ca ví vartete rájasī vedyā́bhi:.
     vaiśvānaró jā́yamāno ná rā́jā́vātirajjyótiṣāgnístámāṃsi.

     One half of day is dark, and bright the other: both atmospheres move on by sage devices.
     Agni Vaisvanara, when born as Sovran, hath with his lustre overcome the darkness.

2. made of silver

अर्जुन • (árjuna) stem, n

1. silver
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 5.28.5:

     भूमिष्ट्वा पातु हरितेन विश्वभृदग्निः पिपर्त्वयसा सजोषाः ।
     वीरुद्भिष्टे अर्जुनं संविदानं दक्षं दधातु सुमनस्यमानम् ॥

     bhūmiṣṭvā pātu haritena viśvabhṛdagniḥ pipartvayasā sajoṣāḥ.
     vīrudbhiṣṭe arjunaṃ saṃvidānaṃ dakṣaṃ dadhātu sumanasyamānam.

     With gold let Earth protect thee, and with iron, accordant, all-sustaining Agni save thee!
     And in accordance with the plants may silver, regarding thee with favour, grant thee vigour.

2. slight inflammation of the conjunctiva or white of the eye
3. (botany) a particular grass
4. (in the plural) the descendants of Arjuna

• Prakrit: 𑀅𑀚𑁆𑀚𑀼𑀡 (ajjuṇa, “silver”)

अर्जुन • (arjuna) stem, m

1. the tree Terminalia arjuna

• → Old Javanese: arjuna
• → Tocharian B: arjuṃ

अर्जुन • (arjuna) stem, m

1. (Hinduism) Arjuna, son of Pandu and Kunti, husband of Draupadi and Subhadra, and the father of Abhimanyu and Shrutakarma
2. a male given name commonly used in India

• → Old Javanese: Arjuna
  • Javanese: ꦄꦂꦗꦸꦤ (Arjuna), ꦲꦼꦂꦗꦸꦤ (Herjuna)
  • → Balinese: ᬅᬃᬚᬸᬦ (Arjuna)

• Monier Williams (1899) “अर्जुन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 90.