धृ

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

    From Proto-Indo-Aryan *dʰar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰar-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).

    Pronunciation

    Root

    धृ • (dhṛ)

    1. to hold
      • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.121.1:
        हि॒र॒ण्य॒ग॒र्भः सम॑वर्त॒ताग्रे॑ भू॒तस्य॑ जा॒तः पति॒रेक॑ आसीत् ।
        स दा॑धार पृथि॒वीं द्यामु॒तेमां कस्मै॑ दे॒वाय॑ ह॒विषा॑ विधेम ॥
        hiraṇyagarbháḥ sámavartatā́gre bhūtásya jātáḥ pátiréka āsīt.
        sá dādhāra pṛthivī́ṃ dyā́mutémā́ṃ kásmai devā́ya havíṣā vidhema.
        Hiraṇyagarbha was present at the beginning; when born, he was the sole lord of created beings;
        he upheld this earth and heaven-- let us offer worship with an oblation to the divine.

    Usage notes

    The (morphological) causative धारयति (dhāráyati) is in practice used as the main present verb.

    Derived terms

    Sanskrit terms belonging to the root धृ (0 c, 15 e)
    Terms derived from the Sanskrit root धृ (13 c, 0 e)
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    References

    • Monier Williams (1899) “धृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 519, column 1.
    • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 84
    • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “dhṛ”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “DHAR”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 778-9
    • Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University
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