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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *part- (“fight”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *per-t, from *per- (“to beat, hit”). Cognate with Lithuanian per̃ti (“to thrash”) and Old Armenian հարկանեմ (harkanem, “to beat, strike”).
Pronunciation
Noun
पृत् • (pṛt) stem, f
- fight, battle, strife, combat
- Synonyms: पृतना (pṛtanā), युद्ध (yuddha), आहव (āhava), मृध् (mṛdh), संग्राम (saṃgrāma)
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 6.33.3:
- त्वं ताँ इन्द्रोभयाँ अमित्रान्दासा वृत्राण्यार्या च शूर ।
वधीर्वनेव सुधितेभिरत्कैरा पृत्सु दर्षि नृणां नृतम ॥- tvaṃ tām̐ indrobhayām̐ amitrāndāsā vṛtrāṇyāryā ca śūra.
vadhīrvaneva sudhitebhiratkairā pṛtsu darṣi nṛṇāṃ nṛtama. - You, hero, Indra, destroyed both classes of enemies, both Dāsas and Āryas, adversaries; chief leader of leaders, you cut your foes in pieces in battles with weapons, as wood-cutters, the forests.
Declension
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “पृत्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 645, column 3.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “पृत्”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1044
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “पृत्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 169
- Arthur Berriedale Keith, Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1912) “pṛt”, in Vedic index of names and subjects, volume 2, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. , →OCLC, page 15
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “pṛccháti - pṛt-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 160