वृत्

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

वर्त् (vart)

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

ৱৃত্ (Assamese script)
ᬯᬺᬢ᭄ (Balinese script)
বৃত্ (Bengali script)
𑰪𑰴𑰝𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀯𑀾𑀢𑁆 (Brahmi script)
ဝၖတ် (Burmese script)
વૃત્ (Gujarati script)
ਵ੍ਰਤ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌵𑍃𑌤𑍍 (Grantha script)
ꦮꦽꦠ꧀ (Javanese script)
𑂫𑃂𑂞𑂹 (Kaithi script)
ವೃತ್ (Kannada script)
វ្ឫត៑ (Khmer script)
ວ຺ຣິຕ຺ (Lao script)
വൃത് (Malayalam script)
ᠸᡵᡳᢠ (Manchu script)
𑘪𑘵𑘝𑘿 (Modi script)
ᠸᠷᠢᢐ (Mongolian script)
𑧊𑧖𑦽𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
𑐰𑐺𑐟𑑂 (Newa script)
ଵୃତ୍ (Odia script)
ꢮꢺꢡ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
𑆮𑆸𑆠𑇀 (Sharada script)
𑖪𑖴𑖝𑖿 (Siddham script)
වෘත් (Sinhalese script)
𑩾𑩙𑩫 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
𑚦𑚙𑚶 (Takri script)
வ்ரித் (Tamil script)
వృత్ (Telugu script)
วฺฤตฺ (Thai script)
ཝྲྀ་ཏ྄ (Tibetan script)
𑒫𑒵𑒞𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
𑨭𑨼𑨉𑨙𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋr̩t/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ʋr̩t̪/

Root

वृत् • (vṛt)

to turn, to rotate

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms

वर्त॑ते (vártate, present)
वर्त॑ति (vártati, present)
व॒र्त्स्यति॑ (vartsyáti, future)
वर्तिष्यति (vartiṣyati, future)
वर्तिता (vartitā, periphrastic future)
अव॑र्त् (ávart, aorist)
अवृ॑त्त (ávṛtta, aorist)
अवृ॑तत् (ávṛtat, aorist)
व॒वर्त॑ (vavárta, perfect)

Secondary forms

अव॑र्ति (ávarti, passive aorist)
अव॑वर्ति (ávavarti, passive aorist)
व॒र्तय॑ति (vartáyati, causative)
अवी॑वृतत् (ávīvṛtat, causative aorist)
वर्त्यते (vartyate, passive of causative)
विवृ॑त्सति (vívṛtsati, desiderative)
वर्व॑र्त्ति (várvartti, intensive)
वरीवर्त्ति (varīvartti, intensive)

Non-finite forms

वृ॒त्त (vṛttá, past participle)
वर्तितुम् (vartitum, infinitive)
वर्तित (vartita, causative past participle)
व॒र्त॒यध्यै॑ (vartayádhyai, causative infinitive)

Derived nominal forms

चक्रवर्तिन् (cakravartin, “whose wheels roll everywhere unobstructed; emperor, sovereign of the world”)
त्रिवर्तु (trivártu, “threefold”)
वर्तन (vártana, “turn, turning, rotation, spindle, globe”)
वर्तनि (vartaní, “circumference or felly of a wheel; track of a wheel; path”)
वर्तनी (vartanī, “path, way, road; life; spindle”)
वर्ति (varti)
वर्तिन् (vartin)
वर्तिस् (vartís, “circuit, orbit, abode, lodging”)
वर्ती (vartī, “wrap, bandage, wick, streak, object rolled round”)
वर्तुल (vartula, “circle, ball, globe”)
वर्त्मन् (vártman, “wheel rut; path, course, way”)
वृत्ति (vṛtti, “rolling, way of life, state, existing, being in, business, wages, livelihood”)

Prefixed root forms

अनुवृत् (anuvṛt, “follow, pursue, resemble, obey, assent, respect”)
परिवृत् (parivṛt, “turn around, revolve, convert, change”)
प्रवृत् (pravṛt, “to assume (an office), embrace (a duty), to be promoted”)

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root वृत् (0 c, 17 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root वृत् (15 c, 0 e)

References

^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “VART”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 518

Further reading

Monier Williams (1899), “वृत्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1009, column 1.
William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 164

Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “vṛt”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 691-692