हृष्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (rigid, stiff; surprised). Cognate with Latin horreō, horror; Ancient Greek χέρσος (khérsos, dry land), the source of Ukrainian Херсо́н (Xersón, Kherson).

Pronunciation

Root

हृष् (hṛṣ)

  1. to be excited or impatient or anxious
  2. to thrill with rapture, exult
  3. to be aroused, become erect or rigid, bristle
  4. to become on edge

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), हृष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1303.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 208
  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), हृष्”, 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
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), हृष्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
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