कृत्

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-t-, an extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

कृत् • (kṛt)

1. to cut in pieces, to divide

• कर्तति (kartati, “to cut, divide, rip”)
• कर्त (karta, “hole, cavity”)
  • ⇒ गर्त (garta)
• कर्तन (kartana, “the act of cutting”)
• कर्तनी (kartanī, “scissors”)
• कृन्तति (kṛntati, “to cut, tear, divide”)
  • ⇒ कण्ट (kaṇṭa), कण्टक (kaṇṭaka, “thorn, prickle, fishbone”)
• कृतिका (kṛtikā), कृत्तिका (kṛttikā, “cutter”)
  • ⇒ कार्त्तिक (kārttika), कार्तिक (kārtika)

See -कृत् (-kṛt).

कृत् • (kṛt) m

1. a suffix which makes nouns from roots (VPrāt., Pāṇ.)

कृत् • (kṛt) n

1. a noun made from a root with a suffix -कृत् (-kṛt)

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कृत् • (kṛt)

1. to surround, to encompass

• कृणत्ति (kṛṇatti) — to surround, encompass

• Monier Williams (1899), “कृत्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 0301, 0304.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 22