मृड्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥žd- (to forgive, spare, to pity).

Pronunciation

Root

मृड् • (mṛḍ)

  1. to be gracious or favorable
  2. to pardon, spare
  3. to treat kindly, make happy, delight

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “मृड्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0829.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 125
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “मृड्”, 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
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