रुच्
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- ৰুচ্ (Assamese script)
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- ᠷᠤᢋ (Mongolian script)
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- 𑨫𑨃𑨣𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /ɾút͡ɕ/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /ɾut͡ɕ/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *rúkš, from Proto-Indo-European *léwks, from *lewk- (“light; to be bright”). Cognate with Latin lūx, Russian луч (luč, “light”), Persian روشن (rowšan), Old English lēoht (whence English light).
Noun
रुच् • (rúc) stem, f
- light, lustre, brightness
- a beam of light
- c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 9.96.24:
- आ ते॒ रुचः॒ पव॑मानस्य सोम॒ योषे॑व यन्ति सु॒दुघाः॑ सुधा॒राः ।
हरि॒र् आनी॑तः पुरु॒वारो॑ अ॒प्स्व् अचि॑क्रदत् क॒लशे॑ देवयू॒नाम् ॥- ā́ te rúcaḥ pávamānasya soma yóṣeva yanti sudúghāḥ sudhārā́ḥ.
hárir ā́nītaḥ puruvā́ro apsv ácikradat kaláśe devayūnā́m. - With full stream and abundant milk, O Soma, thy beams come, like a woman, as they cleanse thee.
He [Soma], gold-hued, rich in boons, brought to the waters, hath roared within the goblet of the pious.
- ā́ te rúcaḥ pávamānasya soma yóṣeva yanti sudúghāḥ sudhārā́ḥ.
- आ ते॒ रुचः॒ पव॑मानस्य सोम॒ योषे॑व यन्ति सु॒दुघाः॑ सुधा॒राः ।
- splendor, beauty, loveliness
- pleasure, delight, liking, wish, desire
- color, hue
- 550 CE, Varāhamihira, Bṛhat Saṃhitā
- appearance, resemblance
Declension
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | रुक् (rúk) | रुचौ॑ (rúcau) रुचा॑¹ (rúcā¹) |
रुचः॑ (rúcaḥ) |
| accusative | रुच॑म् (rúcam) | रुचौ॑ (rúcau) रुचा॑¹ (rúcā¹) |
रुचः॑ (rúcaḥ) |
| instrumental | रु॒चा (rucā́) | रु॒ग्भ्याम् (rugbhyā́m) | रु॒ग्भिः (rugbhíḥ) |
| dative | रु॒चे (rucé) | रु॒ग्भ्याम् (rugbhyā́m) | रु॒ग्भ्यः (rugbhyáḥ) |
| ablative | रु॒चः (rucáḥ) | रु॒ग्भ्याम् (rugbhyā́m) | रु॒ग्भ्यः (rugbhyáḥ) |
| genitive | रु॒चः (rucáḥ) | रु॒चोः (rucóḥ) | रु॒चाम् (rucā́m) |
| locative | रु॒चि (rucí) | रु॒चोः (rucóḥ) | रु॒क्षु (rukṣú) |
| vocative | रुक् (rúk) | रुचौ॑ (rúcau) रुचा॑¹ (rúcā¹) |
रुचः॑ (rúcaḥ) |
- ¹Vedic
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
Alternative forms
- रोच् (roc)
Root
रुच् • (ruc)
- to shine, be bright or radiant or resplendent
- to be splendid or beautiful or good
- to be agreeable to, please
- to be pleased with, like
- to enlighten, illuminate, make bright
Derived terms
Primary verbal forms
Secondary forms
- अरोचि (aroci, passive aorist)
- रो॒चय॑ति (rocáyati, causative)
- अरू॑रुचत् (árūrucat, causative aorist)
- रोच्यते (rocyate, passive of causative)
Non-finite forms
- रु॒चि॒त (rucitá, past participle)
- रोचितुम् (rocitum, infinitive)
- रु॒चे (rucé, infinitive)
Derived nominal forms
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root रुच् (0 c, 12 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root रुच् (3 c, 0 e)
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “रुच्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 881, column 3.
- William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 141
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “ruc”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 452; 463-4