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Khaling
Noun
दु (du)
- beginning, progress, order
Usage notes
- used with possessive prefix
References
- “दु”, in खालिङ - नेपाली - अङ्ग्रेजी शब्दकोश (Khaling - Nepali - English Dictionary), Nepal: SIL International, 2016.
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- দু (Assamese script)
- ᬤᬸ (Balinese script)
- দু (Bengali script)
- 𑰟𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀤𑀼 (Brahmi script)
- ဒု (Burmese script)
- દુ (Gujarati script)
- ਦੁ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌦𑍁 (Grantha script)
- ꦢꦸ (Javanese script)
- 𑂠𑂳 (Kaithi script)
- ದು (Kannada script)
- ទុ (Khmer script)
- ທຸ (Lao script)
- ദു (Malayalam script)
- ᡩᡠ (Manchu script)
- 𑘟𑘳 (Modi script)
- ᢑᠤ (Mongolian script)
- 𑦿𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐡𑐸 (Newa script)
- ଦୁ (Odia script)
- ꢣꢸ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆢𑆶 (Sharada script)
- 𑖟𑖲 (Siddham script)
- දු (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩭𑩒 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚛𑚰 (Takri script)
- து³ (Tamil script)
- దు (Telugu script)
- ทุ (Thai script)
- དུ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒠𑒳 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨛𑨃 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w- (“to burn”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δαίω (daíō, “kindle”), and perhaps related to Latin duellum, bellum (“war”).
Pronunciation
Root
दु • (du)
- to be burnt, consumed with internal heat or sorrow
- to burn, consume with fire
- to cause heat, pain or sorrow
Derived terms
- दुत (dutá, “pained, afflicted”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “दु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0482.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 075
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “दु”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 123
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 104
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0179”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0179