मयूर

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See also: मयूरी

Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra). Doublet of मोर (mor).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /mə.juːɾ/,
  • Hyphenation: म‧यूर
  • Rhymes: -uːɾ

Noun

मयूर • (mayūr) m (feminine मयूरी, Urdu spelling مَیُور)

  1. a peacock
    Synonyms: मोर (mor), (feminine) मोरनी (mornī)

Declension

Declension of मयूर (masc cons-stem)
singular plural
direct मयूर
mayūr 		मयूर
mayūr
oblique मयूर
mayūr 		मयूरों
mayūrõ
vocative मयूर
mayūr 		मयूरो
mayūro

Nepali

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra)

Pronunciation

Noun

मयूर • (mayūra)

  1. peacock

Sanskrit

mayū́ra: a peacock.

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Borrowed from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *mayVr (“peacock”).

Pronunciation

Noun

मयूर • (mayū́ra) stem, m (feminine मयूरी)

  1. peacock (YV., MBh., etc.)

Declension

Masculine a-stem declension of मयूर (mayū́ra)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative मयूरः
mayū́raḥ 		मयूरौ / मयूरा¹
mayū́rau / mayū́rā¹ 		मयूराः / मयूरासः¹
mayū́rāḥ / mayū́rāsaḥ¹
Vocative मयूर
máyūra 		मयूरौ / मयूरा¹
máyūrau / máyūrā¹ 		मयूराः / मयूरासः¹
máyūrāḥ / máyūrāsaḥ¹
Accusative मयूरम्
mayū́ram 		मयूरौ / मयूरा¹
mayū́rau / mayū́rā¹ 		मयूरान्
mayū́rān
Instrumental मयूरेण
mayū́reṇa 		मयूराभ्याम्
mayū́rābhyām 		मयूरैः / मयूरेभिः¹
mayū́raiḥ / mayū́rebhiḥ¹
Dative मयूराय
mayū́rāya 		मयूराभ्याम्
mayū́rābhyām 		मयूरेभ्यः
mayū́rebhyaḥ
Ablative मयूरात्
mayū́rāt 		मयूराभ्याम्
mayū́rābhyām 		मयूरेभ्यः
mayū́rebhyaḥ
Genitive मयूरस्य
mayū́rasya 		मयूरयोः
mayū́rayoḥ 		मयूराणाम्
mayū́rāṇām
Locative मयूरे
mayū́re 		मयूरयोः
mayū́rayoḥ 		मयूरेषु
mayū́reṣu
Notes
  • ¹Vedic

Derived terms

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Descendants

References

  1. ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (1999) “The Indo-Iranian substratum”, in Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations‎, Helsinki, page 4
  2. ^ Masica, Colin P. (1993) The Indo-Aryan Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 40
  3. ^ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 37.
  4. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 317
  5. ^ Morgenstierne, Georg (2003) Elfenbein, J., MacKenzie, D. N., Sims-Williams, Nicholas, editors, A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto (Beitrage Zur Iranistik; 23), Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, →ISBN

Further reading

  • Monier Williams (1899) “मयूर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 789/2.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1963) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 586-7
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