रा

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

रा

  1. Devanagari script form of , ablative singular of (ra, the Pali letter 'r')

Sanskrit

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁- (to give). Cognate with Latin rēs.

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Root

रा • ()

  1. to give, grant, bestow
Derived terms
Primary verbal forms
  • र॒री॒ते (rarīté, present)
  • राति (rāti, present)
  • रास॑ते (rā́sate, present)
  • रा॒स्यति॑ (rāsyáti, future)
  • रा॒ता (rātā́, periphrastic future)
  • अरा॑स्त (árāsta, aorist)
  • र॒रौ (raráu, perfect)
Non-finite forms
  • रा॒त (rātá, past participle)
  • रातवे (rātave, infinitive)
Derived nominal forms
Prefixed root forms
  • संरा (saṃrā)
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root रा (0 c, 1 e)
Category Terms derived from the Sanskrit root रा not found

References

  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “रा”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “R¹”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 442-3
  • Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 499
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 860

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (to bark).

Alternative forms

Root

रा • ()

  1. to bark
Derived terms
See also

References

  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), “रा”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 138