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Sanskrit
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Pronunciation
Root
दृप् • (dṛp)
- to be mad or foolish, rave
- to be extravagant, wild, arrogant, proud
- to light, kindle, inflame
Derived terms
- दृप्त (dṛptá, “mad, wild, proud, arrogant”)
- दर्प (dárpa, “pride, arrogance”)
- दर्पण (dárpaṇa, “'causing vanity', a mirror”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “दृप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 0470, 0491.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दृप्”, 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 077
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “दृप्”, 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