गृध्र

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गृध्र (gṛ́dhra). Doublet of गिद्ध (giddh), a tadbhava.

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɡɾɪd̪ʱ.ɾᵊ/

गृध्र • (gŕdhra) (indeclinable)

1. (rare, formal) greedy

   Synonyms: (more common) लालची (lālcī), लोभी (lobhī)

गृध्र • (gŕdhra) m

1. (rare, formal) a vulture

   Synonym: (more common) गिद्ध (giddh)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “गृध्र”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “गृध्र”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884), “गृध्र”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡŕ̩dʱ.ɾɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡr̩d̪ʱ.ɾɐ/

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *gr̥dʰrás, from Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾l̥dʰ-ró-s, from *g⁽ʷ⁾eldʰ- (“to desire greedily”).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀‎ (gər^əδa, “greedy”), Proto-Slavic *gȏldъ (“hunger”).

गृध्र • (gṛ́dhra)

1. desiring greedily or fervently, eager for, desirous
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda

• Pali: giddha

Nominal derivative of the adjective गृध्र (gṛdhra, “greedy”) above. Literally meaning "the greedy one".

गृध्र • (gṛ́dhra) m

1. a vulture
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 7.104.22:

     उलूकयातुं शुशुलूकयातुं जहि श्वयातुमुत कोकयातुम्।
     सुपर्णयातुमुत गृध्रयातुं दृषदेव प्र मृण रक्ष इन्द्र॥

     ulūkayātuṃ śuśulūkayātuṃ jahi śvayātumuta kokayātum.
     suparṇayātumuta gṛdhrayātuṃ dṛṣadeva pra mṛṇa rakṣa indra.

     Destroy the demon disguised as an owl or owlet, destroy him disguised as dog or cuckoo.
     Destroy him shaped as an eagle or as a vulture as with a stone, O Indra, crush the demon.

   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā)

• Kashmiri: ग्रद् (grad, “vulture, eagle”)
• Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀕𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀥 (giddha)
• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀕𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀥 (giddha)
• Paisaci Prakrit:
  • Punjabi: ਗਿਰਝ (girjha), ਗਿੱਧ (giddha, “vulture”)
• Pali: gaddha
  • → Telugu: గద్ద (gadda), గ్రద్ద (gradda) (Sanskritized)[1]
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀕𑀺𑀤𑁆𑀥 (giddha)
• → Kannada: ಗೃಧ್ರ (gṛdhra)
• → Tamil: கிருத்திரம் (kiruttiram)
• → Hindi: गृध्र (gŕdhra) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899), “गृध्र”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 361.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890), “गृध्र”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “gṛ́dhra”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “GARDH”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 474