आढ्य

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit आढ्य (āḍhyá).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɑːɖʱ.jᵊ/,

आढ्य • (āḍhya) (indeclinable)

1. (formal) wealthy, opulent, rich

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “आढ्य”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha

A late Vedic corruption of an earlier *ārdhyá, which was the vṛddhi derivative of a formation of ऋध् (ṛdh, “to grow, to prosper”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ-.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɑːɖʱ.jɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɖʱ.jɐ/

आढ्य • (āḍhyá) stem

1. wealthy, opulent, rich
   • c. 700 BCE, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 14.6.11.1:

     यथा वै सम्राण्महान्तमध्वानमेष्यन्रथं वा नावं वा समाददीतैवमेवैताभिरुपनिषद्भिः समाहितात्माऽस्येवं वृन्दारक आढ्यः सन्नधीतवेद उक्तोपनिषत्क इतो विमुच्यमानः क्व गमिष्यसीति नाहं तद्भगवन्वेद यत्र गमिष्यामीत्यथ वै तेऽहं तद्वक्ष्यामि यत्र गमिष्यसीति ब्रवीतु भगवानिति

     yathā vai samrāṇmahāntamadhvānameṣyanrathaṃ vā nāvaṃ vā samādadītaivamevaitābhirupaniṣadbhiḥ samāhitātmāʼsyevaṃ vṛndāraka āḍhyaḥ sannadhītaveda uktopaniṣatka ito vimucyamānaḥ kva gamiṣyasīti nāhaṃ tadbhagavanveda yatra gamiṣyāmītyatha vai teʼhaṃ tadvakṣyāmi yatra gamiṣyasīti bravītu bhagavāniti

     “As indeed, oh great king, he who is going to make a long journey would take up a chariot or a ship to himself, just so you are the one whose self (ātman-) is equipped with these profound theories (upaniṣad-). Standing at the top wealthy as you are, where will you go as the one who has learned the Veda been taught the Upaniṣad, when you are released from this world?”. “I don’t know, sir, where I will go to”. “Then I will verily tell you where you will go to”. “You, sir, shall please speak”.

2. (with the instrumental case of the object or in compounds) rich or abounding in; richly endowed or filled with

• Pali: āḷhiya, aḍḍha
• Prakrit: 𑀅𑀟𑁆𑀠 (aḍḍha)
• → Hindi: आढ्य (āḍhya)

• Monier Williams (1899) “आढ्य”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 134.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “āḍhyá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 50
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “आढ्य”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 38