रह्
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- ৰহ্ (Assamese script)
- ᬭᬳ᭄ (Balinese script)
- রহ্ (Bengali script)
- 𑰨𑰮𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀭𑀳𑁆 (Brahmi script)
- ရဟ် (Burmese script)
- રહ્ (Gujarati script)
- ਰਹ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌰𑌹𑍍 (Grantha script)
- ꦫꦲ꧀ (Javanese script)
- 𑂩𑂯𑂹 (Kaithi script)
- ರಹ್ (Kannada script)
- រហ៑ (Khmer script)
- ຣຫ຺ (Lao script)
- രഹ് (Malayalam script)
- ᡵᠠᡥ (Manchu script)
- 𑘨𑘮𑘿 (Modi script)
- ᠷᠠᠾ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧈𑧎𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐬𑐴𑑂 (Newa script)
- ରହ୍ (Odia script)
- ꢬꢲ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆫𑆲𑇀 (Sharada script)
- 𑖨𑖮𑖿 (Siddham script)
- රහ් (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩼𑪂 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚤𑚩𑚶 (Takri script)
- ரஹ் (Tamil script)
- రహ్ (Telugu script)
- รหฺ (Thai script)
- ར་ཧ྄ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒩𑒯𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨫𑨱𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
Of Indo-Iranian origin. The verbal forms are not attested in Vedic Sanskrit. Compare रहस् (ráhas, “secret”) with Classical Persian رَاز (rāz, “secret”).
Mayrhofer tentatively derived the root from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lay”) originally,[1] but later doubts this derivation.[2][3] Whitney compares this root with रंह् (raṃh, “to hasten”), from which रहस् (ráhas, “speed”) is derived.[4] This is semantically tenuous, however.
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /ɾɐɦ/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /ɾɐɦ/
Root
रह् • (rah)
Derived terms
Primary verbal forms
- रह॑ति (ráhati, present)
- र॒हि॒ष्यति॑ (rahiṣyáti, future)
- र॒हि॒ता (rahitā́, periphrastic future)
- अर॑हीत् (árahīt, aorist)
- र॒राह॑ (rarā́ha, perfect)
Secondary forms
- रहयति (rahayati, causative)
- अरी॑रहत् (árīrahat, causative aorist)
Non-finite forms
- र॒हि॒त (rahitá, past participle)
- रहितुम् (rahitum, infinitive)
Derived nominal forms
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root रह् (0 c, 2 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root रह् (7 c, 0 e)
References
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976), “ráhaḥ”, in Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary][1] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 49
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “RAH”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][2] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 442
- ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*raz”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 322
- ^ William Dwight Whitney (1885), “raṅh”, in The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 133
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899), “रह्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 871, column 1.
- William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 138
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*ráhati”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press