रुग्ण

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit रुग्ण (rugṇá).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɾʊɡɳ/

रुग्ण • (rugṇ) (indeclinable)

1. (rare, formal) diseased, sick, infirm

• रुग्णालय (rugṇālay)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “रुग्ण”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “रुग्ण”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-European *lug-nó-s. Related to Latin luxus, Ancient Greek λοξός (loxós), Lithuanian lugnas and Old Norse lykna. Also related to रोग (roga) and रुजति (rujati).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɾuɡ.ɳɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɾuɡ.ɳɐ/

रुग्ण • (rugṇá)

1. broken, bent, shattered, injured, checked
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
2. diseased, sick, infirm

रुग्ण • (rugṇá) n

1. a cleft, fissure
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 3.31.6:

     विदद्यदी सरमा रुग्णम्अद्रेर्महि पाथः पूर्व्यं सध्र्यक्कः ।
     अग्रं नयत्सुपद्यक्षराणामच्छा रवं प्रथमा जानती गात् ॥

     vidadyadī saramā rugṇamadrermahi pāthaḥ pūrvyaṃ sadhryakkaḥ .
     agraṃ nayatsupadyakṣarāṇāmacchā ravaṃ prathamā jānatī gāt .

     When Saramā had found the mountain's fissure, that vast and ancient place she plundered thoroughly.
     In the floods' van she led them forth, light-footed: she who well knew came first unto their lowing.

• Pali: lugga
• → Hindi: रुग्ण (rugṇ) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899), “रुग्ण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 882.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890), “रुग्ण”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “rugṇá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press