दारु

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit दारु (dā́ru).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑː.ɾuː/,

दारु • (dāru) m

1. (rare, formal) wood

   Synonyms: (more common) लकड़ी (lakṛī), काठ (kāṭh), काष्ठ (kāṣṭh)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “दारु”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *dā́ru (“tree, wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬎𐬭𐬎 (dā^uru, “wood”), Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎽𐎢𐎺 (d-a-ru-u-v /⁠dāruv⁠/), Hittite 𒋫𒊒 (“taru”), Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron, “tree”) (whence English dendr-), English tree, Proto-Slavic *drъvo

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /dɑ́ː.ɾu/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ɑː.ɾu/

दारु • (dā́ru) stem, n

1. piece of wood, wood, timber
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.3.4:

     तिग्मं चिदेम महि वर्पो अस्य भसदश्वो न यमसान आसा ।
     विजेहमानः परशुर्न जिह्वां द्रविर्न द्रावयति दारु धक्षत् ॥

     tigmaṃ cidema mahi varpo asya bhasadaśvo na yamasāna āsā.
     vijehamānaḥ paraśurna jihvāṃ dravirna drāvayati dāru dhakṣat.

     Fierce is his (Agni's) gait and vast his wondrous body: he champeth like a horse with bit and bridle,
     And, darting forth his tongue, as ’twere a hatchet, burning the wood, smelteth it like a smelter.

• दारुण (dāruṇa)
• देवदारु (devadāru, “"divine tree": Cedrus deodara, Himalayan cedar”)
• द्वारदारु (dvāradāru, “"door tree": teak wood”)
• ब्रह्मदारु (brahmadāru, “"Brahma tree": Morus indica, mulberry”)

From दॄ (dṝ, “tear, burst, split, break”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /dɑː.ɾú/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ɑː.ɾu/

दारु • (dārú) stem

1. bursting, breaking, splitting

• Monier Williams (1899) “दारु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 474.