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U+090B, ऋ
DEVANAGARI LETTER VOCALIC R

Devanagari

Translingual

Stroke order

Pronunciation

Letter

(ṛ)

  1. Traditionally classified as a vowel of the Devanagari script. Its matra, used to modify the inherent vowel in a consonant, is written ृ. For example the first consonant क with the matra looks like: कृ. It is only used in words of Sanskrit derivation. Transliterated as IAST: or ITRANS: RRi or R^i.

Hindi

Pronunciation

Letter

(ŕ)

  1. the seventh vowel in Hindi

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Marathi

Pronunciation

Letter

(ŕ)

  1. The seventh vowel in Marathi, pronounced ru.

Nepali

Pronunciation

Letter

()

  1. The seventh vowel in Nepali.

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Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Etymology

    Merged from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (stir, move) and *h₁er- (to move, go); the former is cognate with Ancient Greek ὄρνῡμῐ (órnūmi, to set upon; to arouse) and Old Armenian յառնեմ (yaṙnem, to rise, awake), while the latter is cognate with Ancient Greek ἔρχομαι (érkhomai, to go, come) and Albanian erdha (to have come, originated) (via a derivative *h₁erǵʰ- (to move)).

    Pronunciation

    Root

    ()

    1. to go, move
    2. to rise, tend towards
    3. to move, shake
    4. to obtain, gain, acquire, reach, meet with
    5. to move, excite, raise (as voice, words, etc.)
    6. to display
    7. to injure, hurt
    8. to attack
    9. to throw, cast, fling; fix or implant in
    10. to put or place on, fix upon, direct or cast towards (as the eye, etc.); to insert, give, set, or place
    11. to hand over; give to, give in charge of, consign, deliver
    12. to give up, sacrifice
    13. to give back, restore
    14. to pierce through, perforate, penetrate

    Derived terms

    Primary Verbal Forms
    Secondary Forms
    Non-Finite Forms
    Derived Nominal Forms

    References

    • Monier Williams (1899) “”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 223, column 2.
    • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 14
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 105-6