सृ
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- ᬲᬺ (Balinese script)
- সৃ (Assamese script)
- সৃ (Bengali script)
- 𑰭𑰴 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀲𑀾 (Brahmi script)
- 𑌸𑍃 (Grantha script)
- સૃ (Gujarati script)
- ਸ੍ਹ (Gurmukhi script)
- ꦱꦽ (Javanese script)
- ស្ឫ (Khmer script)
- ಸೃ (Kannada script)
- ສ຺ຣິ (Lao script)
- സൃ (Malayalam script)
- 𑘭𑘵 (Modi script)
- ᠰᠷᢈ (Mongolian script)
- ᠰᡵᡳ (Manchu script)
- သၖ (Burmese script)
- 𑧍𑧖 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐳𑐺 (Newa script)
- ସୃ (Oriya script)
- ꢱꢺ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆱𑆸 (Sharada script)
- 𑖭𑖴 (Siddham script)
- සෘ (Sinhalese script)
- సృ (Telugu script)
- สฺฤ (Thai script)
- སྲྀ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒮𑒵 (Tirhuta script)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to spring, jump”).
Cognate with Ancient Greek ἅλλομαι (hállomai, “to jump”), ἁλτῆρες (haltêres) giving English haltere; Latin saliō (“jump”) whence English (somer)sault.
Not to be confused with स्रु (sru) from Proto-Indo-European *srew-.
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /sr̩/
- (Classical) IPA(key): /s̪r̩/
Root
सृ • (sṛ)
- to spring, run
- to flow, speed, glide, move
Derived terms
- सिसर्ति (sísarti)
- सरति (sárati)
- सरस् (sáras)
- सरस्वत् (sárasvat)
- सरस्वती (sárasvatī)
- सरमा (sarámā)
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “सृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 1244.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 189
- Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “सृ”, 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), “सृ”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
- Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 398
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 527
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0899