बृहत्

Hindi

Alternative forms

• वृहत् (vŕhat), वृहत (vŕhat), बृहत (bŕhat)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit बृहत् (bṛhat). Doublet of बुलंद (buland).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /bɾɪ.ɦət̪/,

Adjective

बृहत् • (bŕhat) (indeclinable)

1. (literary, in compounds) large, great, big; mighty, strong
   • 2006, Harendra Prasad Sinha, भारतीय दर्शन की रूपरेखा ‎, Motilal Banarsidass, →ISBN, page 155, →ISBN:

     शरीर के आकार में अन्तर होने के कारण आत्मा के भी भिन्न-भिन्न आकार हो जाते हैं। हाथी में निवास करने वाली आत्मा का रूप बृहत् है।

     śarīr ke ākār mẽ antar hone ke kāraṇ ātmā ke bhī bhinn-bhinn ākār ho jāte ha͠i. hāthī mẽ nivās karne vālī ātmā kā rūp bŕhat hai.

     Due to the difference in the size of the body, the soul also has varying shapes. The form of the soul residing in the elephant is large.

References

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “बृहत्”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3542
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बृहत्”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 744

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• वृहत् (vṛhat) — later variant

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰr̥ȷ́ʰáns, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts (“high, lofty”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬠𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬧𐬙 (bər^əzaṇt), Persian بلند (boland). The Sanskrit root is बृह् (bṛh, “to be thick, grow great or strong, increase, expand”) .

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /br̩.ɦɐ́t/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbr̩.ɦɐt̪/

Adjective

बृहत् • (bṛhát) stem

1. large, great, big, bulky, lofty; long, tall; mighty, strong
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.52.9.1:

     बृहत्स्वश्चन्द्रममवद्यदुक्थ्यमकृण्वत भियसा रोहणं दिवः ।

     bṛhatsvaścandramamavadyadukthyamakṛṇvata bhiyasā rohaṇaṃ divaḥ .

     In fear they raised the lofty self-resplendent hymn, praise giving and effectual, leading up to heaven.

   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 2.27.7.2:

     बृहन्मित्रस्य वरुणस्य शर्मोप स्याम पुरुवीरा अरिष्टाः ॥

     bṛhanmitrasya varuṇasya śarmopa syāma puruvīrā ariṣṭāḥ .

     May we uninjured, girt by many heroes, win Varuna's and Mitra's great protection.

   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 9.108.9:

     अभि द्युम्नं बृहद्यश इषस्पते दिदीहि देव देवयुः । वि कोशं मध्यमं युव ॥

     abhi dyumnaṃ bṛhadyaśa iṣaspate didīhi deva devayuḥ . vi kośaṃ madhyamaṃ yuva .

     Make great glory shine on us, thou Lord of strengthening food, God, as the Friend of Gods: Unclose the fount of middle air.

   • c. 700 CE – 900 CE, Bhāgavata Purāṇa 5.12.10.1:

     एवं कृशं स्थूलमणुर्बृहद्यदसच्च सज्जीवमजीवमन्यत् ।

     evaṃ kṛśaṃ sthūlamaṇurbṛhadyadasacca sajjīvamajīvamanyat .

     Thus, that is skinny, fat, tiny, big is untrue and other true living things are lifeless.

   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa 6.53.22:

     काञ्चनाङ्गदकेयूरो निष्काभरणभूषितः । कुम्भकर्णो बृहत्कर्णः सुहुतोऽग्निरिवाबभौ ॥

     kāñcanāṅgadakeyūro niṣkābharaṇabhūṣitaḥ . kumbhakarṇo bṛhatkarṇaḥ suhutoʼgnirivābabhau .

     Kumbhakarna with long ears, adorned with golden armlets and bracelets worn on his upper arms along with ornament for his breast, shone like fire, well-fed with oblations.

2. clear, loud, hight (as sound)

Declension

Descendants

• Dhivehi: ބޮޑު (boḍu)
• → Hindi: बृहत् (bŕhat), वृहत् (vŕhat), वृहत (vŕhat), बृहत (bŕhat)

Noun

बृहत् • (bṛhát) stem, n

1. height
2. sky, heaven

Declension

Adverb

बृहत् • (bṛhat)

1. greatly, much, highly
2. mightily
3. aloud, loudly

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “बृहत्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 735.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “bṛhat”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “बृहत्”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1171
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “बृहत्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 197
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “br̥hánt”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 527