प्रातर्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

    From Proto-Indo-European *proh₁-tér, from *proh₁- (“early; morning”), from *pro-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πρωΐ (prōḯ, “early in the day”), Proto-West Germanic *frō (“early”) (whence German Frühe (“morning”)). Also distantly related to Old Armenian երախայրիք (eraxayrikʻ).

    Pronunciation

    Adverb

    प्रातर् • (prātár)

    1. early in the morning, at daybreak, at dawn
      • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 7.41.1:
        प्रातर् अग्निं प्रातर् इन्द्रं हवामहे प्रातर् मित्रावरुणा प्रातर् अश्विना ।
        प्रातर् भगं पूषणं ब्रह्मणस्पतिं प्रातः सोमम् उत रुद्रं हुवेम ॥
        prātar agniṃ prātar indraṃ havāmahe prātar mitrāvaruṇā prātar aśvinā.
        prātar bhagaṃ pūṣaṇaṃ brahmaṇaspatiṃ prātaḥ somam uta rudraṃ huvema.
        Agni at dawn, and Indra we invoke at dawn, and Varuṇa and Mitra, and the Aśvins twain.
        Bhaga at dawn, Pūṣan, and Brahmaṇaspati, Soma at dawn, Rudra we will invoke at dawn.
      • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda
    2. next morning, tomorrow

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Niya Prakrit: 𐨤𐨿𐨪𐨟 (prata)
    • Pali: pātar (“early in the morning”)
    • Sylheti: ꠙꠔꠣ (fota, “dawn”)

    References

    • Monier Williams (1899) “प्रातर्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 706/2.
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 188
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