अम्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- (to seize, take hold; swear). Cognate with Old Norse ama (to bother, wound) and possibly Latin amō (to love).

Pronunciation

Root

अम् (am)

  1. to injure, be harmful, perishable
  2. to go
  3. to serve, swear
  4. to seize violently

Derived terms

  • अमीति (ámīti)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), अम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0080.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 03
  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), अम्”, 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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