शॄ

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

शर् (śar)

Alternative scripts

শৄ (Assamese script)
ᬰᬻ (Balinese script)
শৄ (Bengali script)
𑰫𑰵 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀰𑀿 (Brahmi script)
ၐၗ (Burmese script)
શૄ (Gujarati script)
ਸ਼ୄ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌶𑍄 (Grantha script)
ꦯꦽꦴ (Javanese script)
𑂬 (Kaithi script)
ಶೄ (Kannada script)
ឝ្ឬ (Khmer script)
ຨ຺ຣີ (Lao script)
ശൄ (Malayalam script)
ᡧᡵᡳᡳ (Manchu script)
𑘫𑘶 (Modi script)
ᠱᠷᠢᠢ (Mongolian script)
𑧋𑧗 (Nandinagari script)
𑐱𑐻 (Newa script)
ଶୄ (Odia script)
ꢯꢻ (Saurashtra script)
𑆯𑆹 (Sharada script)
𑖫𑖵 (Siddham script)
ශෲ (Sinhalese script)
𑩿𑩙𑩛 (Soyombo script)
𑚧 (Takri script)
ஶ்ரி (Tamil script)
శౄ (Telugu script)
ศฺฤๅ (Thai script)
ཤྲཱྀ (Tibetan script)
𑒬𑒶 (Tirhuta script)
𑨮𑨼𑨉𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to break”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀 (asar^əta, “unbroken”), 𐬯𐬀𐬭𐬌 (sari, “piece, fragment”), Ancient Greek κεραΐζω (keraḯzō, “I tear, destroy”), ἀκέραιος (akéraios, “whole, intact”), Old Irish do·cer (“he fell”), Tocharian B kärnau (“disabled”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕr̩ː/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɕr̩ː/

Root

शॄ • (śṝ)

to crush, rend, break, or shatter
to kill (game)
to be crushed, broken, rent or shattered
to fall out or off
to be worn out, decay, wither, fade

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms

शृ॒णाति॑ (śṛṇā́ti, present)
शरीष्यति (śarīṣyati, future)
शरिष्यति (śariṣyati, future)
शरीता (śarītā, periphrastic future)
शरिता (śaritā, periphrastic future)
अशरीत् (aśarīt, aorist)
अशरैत् (aśarait, aorist)
अशारीत् (aśārīt, aorist)
शशार (śaśāra, perfect)

Secondary forms

शीर्यते (śīryate, passive)
शीर्यति (śīryati, passive)
अशारि (aśāri, passive aorist)
शारि (śāri, passive aorist)
शारयति (śārayati, causative)
अशीशरत् (aśīśarat, causative aorist)
शिशरीषति (śiśarīṣati, desiderative)
शिशीर्षति (śiśīrṣati, desiderative)
शेशीर्यते (śeśīryate, intensive)
शाशर्ति (śāśarti, intensive)

Non-finite forms

शरीतुम् (śarītum, infinitive)
शरितुम् (śaritum, infinitive)
शरीतोस् (śarītos, infinitive)
शरितोस् (śaritos, infinitive)

Derived nominal forms

शर (śara)
पराशर (parāśara)
शरणि (śaraṇi)
विशर (viśara)
शरारु (śarāru)
शीर्ति (śīrti)
अशीर्य (aśīrya)

Prefixed root forms

पराशॄ (parāśṝ)

Category Sanskrit terms belonging to the root शॄ not found

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root शॄ (6 c, 0 e)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “शॄ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1088/2.
William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 176

Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 617-8
Cheung, Johnny (2007), Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338