व्रण

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit व्रण (vraṇa). Doublet of वण (vaṇ, colloquial, dialectal).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɾəɳ/

व्रण • (vraṇ) n

1. scar

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “व्रण”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “व्रण”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911) “व्रण”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press
• दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण (1932-1950) “व्रण”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे : महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ).

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cut, scratch, tear, sketch an outline”). Cognates include Armenian գիր (gir, “letter”), Ancient Greek ῥινός (rhinós, “skin”), Old Church Slavonic рана (rana, “wound”), Old High German rīzan (German reißen) and Old English wrītan (English write).

व्रण • (vraṇa) stem, m

1. wound, sore, ulcer, abscess, tumour, cancer, boil, scar, cicatrix, crack

• → Bengali: ব্রণ (bron)
• → Marathi: व्रण (vraṇ)
• → Telugu: వ్రణము (vraṇamu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “व्रण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1042.