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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥žd- (“to forgive, spare, to pity”).
Pronunciation
Root
मृड् • (mṛḍ)
- to be gracious or favorable
- to pardon, spare
- to treat kindly, make happy, delight
Derived terms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “मृड्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0829.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 125
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मृड्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016