वृक्ष

Borrowed from Sanskrit वृक्ष (vṛkṣa).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʋɾɪkʂ/,

वृक्ष • (vŕkṣ) m

1. tree

   Synonyms: दरख़्त (daraxt), पादप (pādap), पेड़ (peṛ)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वृक्ष”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Sanskrit वृक्ष (vṛkṣa). Compare Gujarati વૃક્ષ (vŕkṣ), Kannada ವೃಕ್ಷ (vṛkṣa), Bengali বৃক্ষ (brikkho).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɾuk.ʂə/

वृक्ष • (vŕkṣa) m

1. (botany) tree

   Synonym: झाड (j̈hāḍ)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “वृक्ष”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “वृक्ष”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण (1932-1950) “वृक्ष”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे : महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ).

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *wr̥ćšás (“tree”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬱𐬀 (var^əša).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋr̩k.ʂɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʋr̩k.ʂɐ/

वृक्ष • (vṛkṣá) stem, m

1. a tree, (especially) any tree bearing visible flowers and fruit, but also applied to any tree and other plants, often in the sense of wood
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.24.3:

     अक्षो॒ न च॒क्र्यो॑: शूर बृ॒हन्प्र ते॑ म॒ह्ना रि॑रिचे॒ रोद॑स्योः।
     वृ॒क्षस्य॒ नु ते॑ पुरुहूत व॒या व्यू॒३॒॑तयो॑ रुरुहुरिन्द्र पू॒र्वीः॥

     ákṣo ná cakryò: śūra bṛhánprá te mahnā́ ririce ródasyoḥ.
     vṛkṣásya nú te puruhūta vayā́ vyū̀táyo ruruhurindra pūrvī́ḥ.

     The lofty axle of thy wheels, O Hero, is not surpassed by heaven and earth in greatness.
     Like branches of a tree, O thou Invoked by many, manifold assistance spring forth from thee, O Indra.

2. tree trunk
3. coffin
4. the staff of a bow
5. Wrightia antidysenterica

• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀮𑀼𑀔 (lukha /⁠lukkha⁠/), *𑀭𑀼𑀓𑁆𑀔 (*rukkha)
  • Ardhamagadhi Prakrit: 𑀭𑀼𑀓𑁆𑀔 (rukkha)
  • Khasa Prakrit:
    • Nepali: रुख (rukh)
  • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀭𑀼𑀓𑁆𑀔 (rukkha)
    • Old Marathi: 𑘨𑘳𑘏 (rukha), 𑘨𑘳𑘽𑘏 (ruṃkha)
  • Paisaci Prakrit:
    • Punjabi: ਰੁੱਖ／رُکھ (rukkha)
  • Prakrit:
    • Sylheti: ꠞꠥꠇ (ruk)
  • Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀭𑀼𑀓𑁆𑀔 (rukkha)
    • Romani: rukh
• Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀯𑁆𑀭𑀙 (vracha)
  • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀯𑀘𑁆𑀙 (vaccha)
• Helu Prakrit:
  • Dhivehi: ރުއް (ruk̊)
  • Sinhalese: රුක (ruka)
• Pali: rukkha
  • Burmese: ရုက္ခ (rukhka.)
  • Thai: รุกข

Borrowed

• → Bengali: বৃক্ষ (brikkho)
• → Gujarati: વૃક્ષ (vŕkṣ)
• → Hindi: वृक्ष (vŕkṣ)
• → Kannada: ವೃಕ್ಷ (vṛkṣa)
• → Malayalam: വൃക്ഷം (vr̥kṣaṁ)
• → Old Khmer: briksā
  • → Thai: พฤกษา (prʉ́k-sǎa)
  • → Khmer: ព្រឹក្សា (prɨksaa)
• → Old Marathi: 𑘪𑘿𑘨𑘲𑘎𑘿𑘬 (vrīkṣa)
  • → Marathi: वृक्ष (vŕkṣa)
• → Odia: ବୃକ୍ଷ (br̥kṣa)
• → Tamil: விருக்ஷம் (virukṣam)
• → Telugu: వృక్షము (vr̥kṣamu)
• → Thai: พฤกษ์ (prʉ́k), พฤกษ (prʉ́k-sà-)
• → Tulu: ವೃಕ್ಷ (vṛkṣa)

• Monier Williams (1899) “वृक्ष”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1008/2.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “vṛkṣa”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.