सर्व

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit सर्व (sárva). Doublet of सब (sab) and हर (har).

Adjective

सर्व • (sarv) (indeclinable)

1. (formal or in compounds) whole, entire, all, every

   Synonyms: सब (sab), सारा (sārā), पूरा (pūrā), पूर्ण (pūrṇ)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सर्व-”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Marathi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit सर्व (sárva).

Adjective

सर्व • (sarva)

1. whole, entire, all, every

   सर्वजण

   sarvajaṇ

   everyone

References

• Berntsen, Maxine, “सर्व”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1983.
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “सर्व”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *sárwas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sárwas (“whole, all, entire”), from Proto-Indo-European *sólh₂wos, from *solh₂- (“whole”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀 (ha^uruua), Old Persian 𐏃𐎽𐎺 (h-ru-v /⁠haruva⁠/) (whence Persian هر (har)), Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”), Latin sollus, Albanian gjallë.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐ́ɾ.ʋɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ɐɾ.ʋɐ/

Adjective

सर्व • (sárva)

1. whole, entire, all, every

   सर्वाः पन्थाः रोमायाम् प्र नयन्ति। ― sárvāḥ pánthāḥ romāyām prá náyanti. ― All roads lead to Rome.

2. of all sorts, manifold, various, different
3. altogether, wholly, completely, in all parts, everywhere

Declension

Derived terms

• सर्वधारी (sarvadhārī)

Borrowed terms

Descendants

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “सर्व”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1184/3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 711
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sárva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press