नु

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

नू (nū́)

Alternative scripts

ᬦᬸ (Balinese script)
নু (Assamese script)
নু (Bengali script)
𑰡𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀦𑀼 (Brahmi script)
𑌨𑍁 (Grantha script)
નુ (Gujarati script)
ਨੁ (Gurmukhi script)
ꦤꦸ (Javanese script)
នុ (Khmer script)
ನು (Kannada script)
ນຸ (Lao script)
നു (Malayalam script)
𑘡𑘳 (Modi script)
ᠨᠤ (Mongolian script)
ᠨᡠ (Manchu script)
နု (Burmese script)
𑧁𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
𑐣𑐸 (Newa script)
ନୁ (Oriya script)
ꢥꢸ (Saurashtra script)
𑆤𑆶 (Sharada script)
𑖡𑖲 (Siddham script)
නු (Sinhalese script)
ను (Telugu script)
นุ (Thai script)
ནུ (Tibetan script)
𑒢𑒳 (Tirhuta script)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬥𐬏‎ (nū, “now”), Latin num (“now”), Old English nū (whence English now), Albanian ni (“now”), Lithuanian nù (“now”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /nú/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /n̪u/

Adverb

नु • (nú)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to nod, ascent”). Cognates include English need and possibly Latin nūntius whence announce.

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /nu/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /n̪u/

Root

नु • (nu)

to sound out, exult
to praise, commend

Derived terms

नुत (nutá, “praised, commended”)
नुति (nuti, “praise, laudation; worship”)

Noun

नु • (nu) m

praise, eulogium

References

Monier Williams (1899), “नु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 567.
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 767
Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 353

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