अङ्ग

अङ्ग n

1. Devanagari script form of aṅga

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́ŋ.ɡɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɐŋ.ɡɐ/

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hángas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hángas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eng- (“corner”).

अङ्ग॑ • (áṅga) stem, m (root अङ्ग्)

1. a limb of the body
   1. a mental organ, the mind
2. a limb, member
3. the body
4. a branch, division (e.g. of a science)
   1. (Vedic religion) Vedanga (six auxiliary disciplines connected to the study of the Vedas)
   2. (Jainism) Anga (the twelve sacred texts of the Jain canon)

      Synonym: आगम (āgama)

   3. a subdivision of a मन्त्र (mantra); a government department
5. any subdivision, a supplement
6. (grammar) the stem or base of a word, but in the strong cases only
7. anything inferior or secondary, anything immaterial or unessential
8. (rhetoric) an illustration
9. (drama) the whole of the subordinate characters
10. expedient

• चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga)

Borrowed terms

Uncertain. The traditional derivation from अङ्ग् (aṅg, “to go”) is semantically unappealing. Others connect the word to Old Prussian anga (“whether”).

अङ्ग • (aṅga)

1. a particle implying attention, assent or desire, and sometimes impatience; it may be rendered by well
2. indeed, true; please; rather; quick

• Monier Williams (1899) “अङ्ग”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 7/2-3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 48
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “anga”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 6
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 30-1