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Sanskrit
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Etymology
Related to नाध् (nādh, “to seek help”), Old Armenian արհամարհ (arhamarh, “despicable, low”) (an Iranian borrowing), and perhaps Ancient Greek νωθρός (nōthrós, “sluggish, slothful”); see those for more.
Pronunciation
Adjective
आध्र • (ādhra) stem
- poor, destitute, indigent, weak
Declension
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “आध्र”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 139/2.
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 165-6