मृज्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂merǵ- (to wipe). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὀμόργνῡμῐ (omórgnūmi).

Pronunciation

Root

मृज् (mṛj)

  1. to wipe, rub, cleanse, polish
  2. to purify, embellish, adorn

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), मृज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0829.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), मृज्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • 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), मृज्”, 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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