मृ
Sanskrit
Alternative forms
- मर् (mar)
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- মৃ (Assamese script)
- ᬫᬺ (Balinese script)
- মৃ (Bengali script)
- 𑰦𑰴 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀫𑀾 (Brahmi script)
- မၖ (Burmese script)
- મૃ (Gujarati script)
- ਮ੍ਰ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌮𑍃 (Grantha script)
- ꦩꦽ (Javanese script)
- 𑂧𑃂 (Kaithi script)
- ಮೃ (Kannada script)
- ម្ឫ (Khmer script)
- ມ຺ຣິ (Lao script)
- മൃ (Malayalam script)
- ᠮᡵᡳ (Manchu script)
- 𑘦𑘵 (Modi script)
- ᠮᠷᠢ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧆𑧖 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐩𑐺 (Newa script)
- ମୃ (Odia script)
- ꢪꢺ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆩𑆸 (Sharada script)
- 𑖦𑖴 (Siddham script)
- මෘ (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩴𑩙 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚢 (Takri script)
- ம்ரி (Tamil script)
- మృ (Telugu script)
- มฺฤ (Thai script)
- མྲྀ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒧𑒵 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨢𑨼𑨉 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *mar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mar-, from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die, disappear”).[1][2] Cognate with Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬭- (mar-), Persian مردن (mordan), Northern Kurdish mirin, مردن (mirdin), Old Armenian մեռանիմ (meṙanim), Old Church Slavonic мрѣти (mrěti), Lithuanian mirti, Latin morior.
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /mr̩/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /mr̩/
Root
मृ • (mṛ)
- to die
Usage notes
The passive verb म्रियते (mriyáte) functions as the main present verb.
Derived terms
Primary verbal forms
Secondary forms
Non-finite forms
- मृ॒त (mṛtá, past participle)
- मर्तु॑म् (mártum, infinitive)
- मर्तवे (martave, infinitive)
- मृ॒त्वा (mṛtvā́, gerund)
- मर्तव्य (martavya, gerundive)
- मिमारयिषु (mimārayiṣu, desiderative participle of causative)
Derived nominal forms
- 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”)
- मर्य (márya, “young man; suitor; mortal”)
- मर्मन् (márman, “mortal spot, vulnerability; core”)
- अमृत (amṛ́ta, “immortal, undying, ambrosia, nectar”)
- मृति (mṛti, “death, dying”)
- मम्रि (mamri, “mortal”)
- मर्त्य (mártya, “human, man, mortal being”)
- मर्त्यता (martyatā, “mortality”)
- मर्त्या (mártyā, “death, dying”)
- मार्त्य (mārtya, “mortality; corporeal part”)
- मुमूर्षा (mumūrṣā, “desire for death; impatience with life”)
- मुमूर्षु (mumūrṣu, “wishing to die; moribund, about to die”)
- मारक (māraka, “plague, epidemic; murderer; hawk”)
- मारि (māri, “pestilence, smallpox, killing”)
- मारी (mārī, “killing, slaughter”)
- मृतिमन् (mṛtiman, “mortality”)
- मृतक (mṛtaka, “dead man, corpse; death, decease”)
- मृत्यु (mṛtyú, “death, dying”)
Prefixed root forms
- अनुमृ (anumṛ)
- अभिमृ (abhimṛ)
- परिमृ (parimṛ)
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root मृ (0 c, 12 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root मृ (17 c, 0 e)
References
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “MṚ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 370
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “MAR”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 318
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899), “मृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 827, column 2.
- William Dwight Whitney (1885), “1 mṛ, 'die'”, in The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 124