रज्जु

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *ráźȷ́uṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *rázǰuš, form Proto-Indo-European *résg-u-s, from *(H)resg- (“to weave, plait”). Cognate with Latin restis, Russian ро́зга (rózga), Lithuanian rezgti. Compare also Old Armenian երագազ (eragaz), an Iranian borrowing.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɾɐ́d.d͡ʑu/,
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɾɐd̪.d͡ʑu/,

रज्जु • (rájju) stem, f

1. a rope, cord, string

   अहं रज्जुं भन्त्स्यामि। ― aháṃ rájjuṃ bhantsyā́mi. ― I will tie the rope.

• Dardic:
  • Kalasha: raǰhúk
  • Kashmiri: رَز (raz)
  • Phalura: راج (rāǰ)
  • Shina: رژ (răž), رجو (raǰo)
• Pali: rajju
• Prakrit: 𑀭𑀚𑁆𑀚 (rajja)
  • Central:
    • Sauraseni Prakrit:
      • Hindustani:
        • Hindi: लजुरी (lajurī)
  • Eastern:
    • Magadhi Prakrit:
      • Assamese: লেজু (lezu)
      • Bengali: লেজুড় (lejuṛ)
      • Bihari: लजुरी (lajurī)
        • Bhojpuri: लजुरी (lajurī)
  • Northern:
    • Khasa Prakrit:
      • Bhadrawahi: रजूड़ी (rajūṛī)
  • Southern:
    • Helu Prakrit:
      • Dhivehi: ރޮދި (rodi)
      • Sinhalese: රොද්ද (rodda), රොදු (rodu)
    • Maharastri Prakrit:
      • Konkani:

        Devanagari script: राज्जु (rājju)

        Latin script: rajju

        Kannada script: ರಾಜ್ಜು

      • Marathi: रज्जू (rajjū)
  • Western:
    • Takka Apabhramsa:
      • Punjabi: lajj

        Gurmukhi script: ਲੱਜ

        Shahmukhi script: لَجّ

    • Vracada Apabhramsa:
      • Sindhi: laj̄a

        Arabic script: لَڄَ

        Devanagari script: रॼ

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “rajju”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 612
• Monier Williams (1899) “रज्जु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 861, column 1.