लम्बते

• रम्बते (rámbate) — Vedic

With Vedic रम्बते (rámbate), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *lámbatay, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb(ʰ)- (“to hang down”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *limpaną, whence English limp.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /lɐ́m.bɐ.tɐj/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /l̪ɐm.bɐ.t̪eː/

लम्ब॑ते • (lámbate) third-singular indicative (class 1, type A, present, root लम्ब्)

1. to hang down, depend, dangle, hang from or on [with locative]
   • Suparṇ
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
2. to sink, go down, decline, fall, set (as the sun)
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
   • 200 BCE – 1200, Kāvya literature
3. to be fastened or attached to, cling to, hold or rest on [with locative]
4. to fall or stay behind, be retarded
   • c. 400 CE, Lāṭadeva, Sūryasiddhānta
5. to tag, loiter, delay, tarry

• Dardic:
  • Kashmiri: لَمُن (lamun, “to pull”)
• Pali: लम्बति (lambati)
• Prakrit: लंबइ (laṃbaï)
  • Kumaoni: लम्यूणो (lamyūṇo, “to pull down”), लमड़णो (lamaṛṇo)
  • Old Marathi: 𑘩𑘰𑘽𑘤𑘜𑘹 (lāṃbaṇe)
    • Marathi: लांबणे (lāmbṇe)
  • ⇒ Punjabi: لَمَکݨا / ਲਮਕਣਾ (lamakṇā, “to hang”)
  • Sindhi: لَمَڻُ / लमणु (lamaṇu, “to hover”)

• Monier Williams (1899), “लम्बते”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 897.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “lámbatē”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 146