मृ

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Sanskrit

Alternative forms

मर् (mar)

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *mar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mar-, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /mr̩/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /mr̩/

Root

मृ • (mṛ)

to die

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root मृ (0 c, 8 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root मृ (20 c, 0 e)

Primary Verbal Forms

मरति (márati, Present)
मरते (márate, Present)
मरिष्यति (mariṣyáti, Future)
मर्ता (martā́, Periphrastic Future)
अमृत (ámṛta, Aorist)
ममार (mamā́ra, Perfect)

Secondary Forms

म्रियते (mriyáte, Passive)
मारयति (māráyati, Causative)
अमीमरत् (ámīmarat, Causative Aorist)
मुमूर्षति (mumūrṣati, Desiderative)
मरीमर्ति (marīmarti, Intensive)

Non-Finite Forms

मृत (mṛtá, Past Participle)
मर्तुम् (mártum, Infinitive)
मृत्वा (mṛtvā́, Gerund)

Derived Nominal Forms

मृत्यु (mṛtyú, “death, dying”)
मार (mā́ra, “slaying, killing, destroying; pestilence”)
मारण (mā́raṇa, “death, slaughter, killing; destruction; slayer”)
मारुक (mā́ruka, “perishing, dying”)
मर (mara, “dying, death; killing”)
मरण (maraṇa, “death, dying”)
मृत (mṛtá, “death”)
मर्त (márta, “mortal, man”)
मर्तव्य (martavya, “liable to die”)
मर्य (márya, “young man; suitor; mortal”)
मर्मन् (márman, “mortal spot, vulnerability; core”)
अमृत (amṛ́ta, “immortal, undying, ambrosia, nectar”)
मृति (mṛtí, “death, dying”)
मम्रि (mamri, “mortal”)
मर्त्य (mártya, “human, man, mortal being”)
मर्त्यता (martyatā, “mortality”)
मर्त्या (mártyā, “death, dying”)
मार्त्य (mārtya, “mortality; corporeal part”)
मरु (marú, “desert, waste”)
मुमूर्षा (mumūrṣā, “desire for death; impatience with life”)
मुमूर्षु (mumūrṣu, “wishing to die; moribund, about to die”)
मारि (māri, “pestilence, smallpox, killing”)
मारक (māraka, “plague, epidemic; murderer; hawk”)
मारी (mārī, “killing, slaughter”)
मृतिमन् (mṛtiman, “mortality”)
मृतक (mṛtaka, “dead man, corpse; death, decease”)

Descendants

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root मृ (20 c, 0 e)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “मृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 827/2.
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 124
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 318-9; 370

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