श्रोत्र

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit श्रोत्र (śrotra).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃɾoːt̪.ɾᵊ/

श्रोत्र • (śrotra) m (formal)

1. (anatomy) the ear

   Synonyms: कान (kān), कर्ण (karṇ), श्रवणेंद्रिय (śravṇendriya), श्रवण (śravaṇ)

2. proficiency in the Vedas
3. the Vedas

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “श्रोत्र”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “श्रोत्र”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱléw-tro-m (“means of hearing”), from *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hleuþrą (whence Icelandic hljóður). By surface analysis, श्रो (śro, full grade of श्रु (śru, “to hear”)) +‎ -त्र (-tra, suffix indicating instrumentality).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɾɐ́wt.ɾɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɕɾoːt̪.ɾɐ/

श्रोत्र • (śrótra) stem, n

1. (anatomy) the organ of hearing; ear

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:कर्ण

   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā) IV.7.10:

     आयु॑र्य॒ज्ञेन॑ कल्पतां प्रा॒णो य॒ज्ञेन॑ कल्पताम्-अपा॒नो य॒ज्ञेन॑ कल्पतां॒ व्या॒नो य॒ज्ञेन॑ कल्पतां॒ चक्षु॑र्य॒ज्ञेन॑ कल्पता॒ँ श्रोत्रं॑ य॒ज्ञेन॑ कल्पतां॒ मनो॑ य॒ज्ञेन॑ कल्पतां॒ वाग्य॒ज्ञेन॑ कल्पताम्-आ॒त्मा य॒ज्ञेन॑ कल्पतां य॒ज्ञो य॒ज्ञेन॑ कल्पताम्

     ā́yuryajñéna kalpatāṃ prāṇó yajñéna kalpatām-apānó yajñéna kalpatāṃ vyānó yajñéna kalpatāṃ cákṣuryajñéna kalpatām̐ śrotraṃ yajñéna kalpatāṃ máno yajñéna kalpatāṃ vā́gyajñéna kalpatām-ātmā́ yajñéna kalpatāṃ yajñó yajñéna kalpatām

     May life prosper through the worship, may expiration prosper through the worship, may inspiration prosper through the worship, may cross-breathing prosper through the worship, may the eye prosper through the worship, may the ear prosper through the worship, may mind prosper through the worship, may speech prosper through the worship, may the self prosper through the worship, may the worship prosper through the worship.

   • c. 400 BCE, Bhagavad Gītā 15.9:

     श्रोत्रं चक्षुः स्पर्शनं च रसनं घ्राणमेव च।अधिष्ठाय मनश्चायं विषयानुपसेवते॥

     śrotraṃ cakṣuḥ sparśanaṃ ca rasanaṃ ghrāṇameva ca.adhiṣṭhāya manaścāyaṃ viṣayānupasevate.

     The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects.

2. the act of listening to
3. proficiency in the Vedas
4. the Vedas

• Pali: sota
• Prakrit: 𑀲𑁄𑀅 (soa)
• → Hindi: श्रोत्र (śrotra) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “श्रोत्र”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1103.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “श्रोत्र”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “श्रोत्र”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “śrotra”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.