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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“to dye”). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *ra(n)ǰ- (“to colour, dye”), whence Persian رخش (raxš, “red”), Khwarezmian rxtk (raxtak, “red”), Mazanderani رش (raš, “red (of cattle)”), Northern Kurdish reş (“black”) and Sogdian (rɣš- /raxš/, “Rakhsh”), as well as Ancient Greek ῥέζω (rhézō, “I dye, paint”).
Root
रञ्ज् • (rañj)
- to redden
- to dye or colour
Derived terms
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Derived Nominal Forms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “रञ्ज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 861/2.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 134
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 424-425