नम्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to bend”).

Pronunciation

Root

नम् • (nam)

  1. to bend, bow
  2. to bow to, subject or submit
  3. to yield or give way

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root नम् (0 c, 6 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root नम् (9 c, 0 e)
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References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “नम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 528, column 1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 88
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “nam”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 14-15
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) “764”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 764
  • Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 383
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