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Etymology
From अरण (áraṇa, “strange, foreign”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“other, foreign”).
Pronunciation
Noun
अरण्य • (áraṇya) stem, n
- a foreign or a distant land
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 6.24.10:
- सच॑स्व ना॒यम् अव॑से अ॒भीक॑ इ॒तो वा॒ तम् इ॑न्द्र पाहि रि॒षः ।
अ॒मा चै॑न॒म् अर॑ण्ये पाहि रि॒षो मदे॑म श॒तहि॑माः सु॒वीराः॑ ॥- sácasva nāyám ávase abhī́ka itó vā tám indra pāhi riṣáḥ.
amā́ cainam áraṇye pāhi riṣó mádema śatáhimāḥ suvī́rāḥ. - Hasting to help, come hither and protect him, keep him from harm when he is here, O Indra.
At home, abroad, from injury preserve him. May brave sons gladden us through a hundred winters.
- forest, wilderness
- a desert
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References
- “अ॑रण्य” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 40, column 1.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “अरण्य”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 026
- Monier Williams (1899) “अरण्य”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 86, column 3.
- Horace Hayman Wilson, A dictionary in Sanscrit and English, 2nd ed., Calcutta: Education Press, Circular Road, 1832, page 066