तमिस्रा

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *támHsraH (“darkness; dark night”), from Proto-Indo-European *témH-(e)s-ros (“darkness”), from *temH- (“to be dark”).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬙𐬄𐬚𐬭𐬀 (tąθra, “darkness”), Latin tenebrae, German finster (“dark, gloomy”). See also तमिस्र (támisra).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /tɐ́.mis.ɾɑː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t̪ɐˈmis̪.ɾɑː/

तमिस्रा • (támisrā) stem, f

1. a dark night
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 2.27.14:

     अदिते मित्र वरुणोत मृळ यद् वो वयं चकृमा कच् चिद् आगः ।
     उर्व् अश्याम् अभयं ज्योतिर् इन्द्र मा नो दीर्घा अभि नशन् तमिस्राः ॥

     adite mitra varuṇota mṛḷa yad vo vayaṃ cakṛmā kac cid āgaḥ.
     urv aśyām abhayaṃ jyotir indra mā no dīrghā abhi naśan tamisrāḥ.

     Aditi, Mitra, Varuṇa, forgive us however we have erred and sinned against you.
     May I obtain the broad light free from peril: O Indra, let not the long, dark nights harm us.

• Monier Williams (1899) “तमिस्रा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 438.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “तमिस्रा”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan