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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From मुद् (mud, “to be happy, rejoice”, root) + -र (-ra). Possibly morphologically identical to Lithuanian mudrùs (“cheerful, lively”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
मुद्र • (mudrá) stem
- joyous, glad
Declension
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
References
- ^ “mudrùs” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 772–773 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “मुद् mudrá”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 822.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “मुद्र”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1277