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Marathi
Etymology
Inherited from Prakrit णाडी (ṇāḍī), from Sanskrit नाडी (nāḍī́).
Pronunciation
Noun
नाडी • (nāḍī) f
- (botany) stem of a plant
- (anatomy) any tubular organ of the body
- an artery
- a vein
- an intestine
Further reading
- Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “नाडी”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
- Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “नाडी”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
- दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण (1932-1950) “नाडी”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे : महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ).
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From नड (naḍa, a species of reed).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
नाडी • (nāḍī́) stem, f
- (botany) stem of a plant
c. 700 CE – 900 CE,
Bhāgavata Purāṇa 3.8.19:
- स इत्थमुद्वीक्ष्य तदब्जनालनाडीभिर्अन्तर्जलमाविवेश। नार्वाग्गतस्तत्खरनालनालनाभिं विचिन्वंस्तदविन्दताजः॥
- sa itthamudvīkṣya tadabjanālanāḍībhirantarjalamāviveśa. nārvāggatastatkharanālanālanābhiṃ vicinvaṃstadavindatājaḥ.
- Lord Brahmā, thus contemplating, entered the water through the channel of the stem of the lotus. But in spite of entering the stem and going nearer to the navel of Viṣṇu, he could not trace out the root.
- (anatomy) a blood vessel
c. 700 CE – 900 CE,
Bhāgavata Purāṇa 3.26.67:
- विष्णुर्गत्यैव चरणौ नोदतिष्ठत्तदा विराट्। नाडीर्नद्यो लोहितेन नोदतिष्ठत्तदा विराट्॥
- viṣṇurgatyaiva caraṇau nodatiṣṭhattadā virāṭ. nāḍīrnadyo lohitena nodatiṣṭhattadā virāṭ.
- Lord Viṣṇu entered his feet with the faculty of locomotion, but Virāj refused to stand up even then. The rivers entered his blood vessels with the blood and the power of circulation, but still the cosmic being could not be made to stir.
- an artery
- a vein
- any pipe or tube
- a flute
- a juggling trick, deception
- a fistulous sore
- (physiology) the pulse
- any hole or crevice
- a strap of leather, thong
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “nāḍī́”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 33
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “नाडी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 534/2.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “nāḍī”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Apte, Macdonell (2022) “नाडी”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nāḍīˊ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press