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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *grabʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebh₂-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬡 (garəβ, “to seize”), English grab (a borrowing from another Germanic language), and Proto-Slavic *gràbiti (“to grab, seize”).
Pronunciation
Root
ग्रह् • (grah)
- to seize, take
Derived terms
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Secondary Forms
- Non-Finite Forms
- Derived Nominal Forms
- ग्रह (gráha, “seizing, laying hold of”)
- ग्रहण (gráhaṇa, “seizing, holding”)
- ग्रहणीय (grahaṇīya, “to be accepted as a rule or law, to be taken to heart”)
- ग्रहि (grahi, “anything that holds or supports”)
- फलग्रहिष्णु (phalagrahiṣṇu, “fruit-bearing, fruitful”)
- ग्रहीतृ (grahītṛ, “one who takes or seizes”)
- ग्राह (grāha, “seizing, holding, catching, receiving”)
- ग्राहक (grāhaka, “one who seizes or takes captive”)
- ग्राहिन् (grāhin, “seizing, taking, holding”)
- ग्राहि (grā́hi, “female spirit seizing men”)
- ग्राहुक (grāhuka, “seizing”)
- गृह् (gṛh, “seizing (the mind), moving”)
- पादगृह्य (pādagṛhya, “seizing by the foot”)
- हस्तगृह्य (hastagṛhya, “having taken the hand”)
- गृहु (gṛhú, “one who receives alms, beggar”)
- गृहीति (gṛhīti, “seizing, taking”)
- जिघृक्षा (jighṛkṣā, “wish or intention to take or seize”)
- जिघृक्षु (jighṛkṣu, “intending to take or seize”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “ग्रह्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 371, column 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, page 507