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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *grabʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬡 (garəβ, “to seize”), English grab (a borrowing from another Germanic language), and Proto-Slavic *gràbiti (“to grab, seize”).
Pronunciation
Root
ग्रभ् • (grabh)
- to seize
Derived terms
- अग्रभण (agrabhaṇa, “having nothing which can be grasped”)
- गृभ (gṛbhá, “dwelling-place”)
- गृभि (gṛ́bhi, “holding, containing”)
- गृभीत (gṛbhītá, “seized”)
- गृभ् (gṛbh, “grasping, seizing”)
- गृभ्णाति (gṛbhṇā́ti, “he seizes”)
- ग्रभ (grábha, “taking possession”)
- ग्रभीतृ (grabhītṛ, “one who seizes”)
- ग्राभ (grābha, ““one who seizes”, a demon causing diseases”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “ग्रभ्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 371/2.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 40
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 505-7