अङ्ग

अङ्ग n

1. Devanagari script form of aṅga

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

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

अङ्ग॑ • (áṅga) stem, m

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

Borrowed terms

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

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐŋ.ɡɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐŋ.ɡɐ/

अ॒ङ्ग • (aṅgá)

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, page 7, columns 2-3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen ‎ (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