पॄ

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πλήθω (plḗthō, “to fill”), πληθώρη (plēthṓrē, “fullness”) whence English plethora, πολῠ́ς (polús, “many”) whence English poly-; Latin pleō (“fill”), plenus (“full”) whence English replenish etc, Latin plūs, German viel (“a lot”), English fill.

Pronunciation

Root

पॄ • (pṝ)

  1. to fill, fill up, complete
  2. to sate, nourish
  3. to fulfil, satisfy

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), “पॄ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0648.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 100
  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “पॄ”, 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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