मृ

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• मर् (mar)

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• মৃ (Assamese script)
• ᬫᬺ (Balinese script)
• মৃ (Bengali script)
• 𑰦𑰴 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀫𑀾 (Brahmi script)
• မၖ (Burmese script)
• મૃ (Gujarati script)
• ਮ੍ਰ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌮𑍃 (Grantha script)
• ꦩꦽ (Javanese script)
• 𑂧𑃂 (Kaithi script)
• ಮೃ (Kannada script)
• ម្ឫ (Khmer script)
• ມ຺ຣິ (Lao script)
• മൃ (Malayalam script)
• ᠮᡵᡳ (Manchu script)
• 𑘦𑘵 (Modi script)
• ᠮᠷᠢ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧆𑧖 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐩𑐺 (Newa script)
• ମୃ (Odia script)
• ꢪꢺ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆩𑆸 (Sharada script)
• 𑖦𑖴 (Siddham script)
• මෘ (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩴𑩙 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚢 (Takri script)
• ம்ரி (Tamil script)
• మృ (Telugu script)
• มฺฤ (Thai script)
• མྲྀ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒧𑒵 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨢𑨼𑨉 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mr̩/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /mr̩/

Root

मृ • (mṛ)

1. to die

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root मृ‎ (0 c, 5 e)

Primary Verbal Forms

• मरति (márati, Present)
• मरते (márate, Present)
• मरिष्यति (mariṣyáti, Future)
• मर्ता (martā́, Periphrastic Future)
• अमृत (ámṛta, Aorist)
• ममार (mamā́ra, Perfect)

Secondary Forms

• म्रियते (mriyáte, Passive)
• मारयति (māráyati, Causative)
• अमीमरत् (ámīmarat, Causative)
• मुमूर्षति (mumūrṣati, Desiderative)
• मरीमर्ति (marīmarti, Intensive)

Non-Finite Forms

• मर्तुम् (mártum, Infinitive)
• मृत्वा (mṛtvā́, Gerund)
• मृत (mṛtá, Past Participle)

Derived Nominal Forms

• मृत्यु (mṛtyú, “death, dying”)
• मार (mā́ra, “slaying, killing, destroying; pestilence”)
• मारण (mā́raṇa, “death, slaughter, killing; destruction; slayer”)
• मारुक (mā́ruka, “perishing, dying”)
• मर (mara, “dying, death; killing”)
• मरण (maraṇa, “death, dying”)
• मृत (mṛtá, “death”)
• मर्त (márta, “mortal, man”)
• मर्तव्य (martavya, “liable to die”)
• मर्य (márya, “young man; suitor; mortal”)
• मर्मन् (márman, “mortal spot, vulnerability; core”)
• अमृत (amṛ́ta, “immortal, undying, ambrosia, nectar”)
• मृति (mṛtí, “death, dying”)
• मम्रि (mamri, “mortal”)
• मर्त्य (mártya, “human, man, mortal being”)
• मर्त्यता (martyatā, “mortality”)
• मर्त्या (mártyā, “death, dying”)
• मार्त्य (mārtya, “mortality; corporeal part”)
• मरु (marú, “desert, waste”)
• मुमूर्षा (mumūrṣā, “desire for death; impatience with life”)
• मुमूर्षु (mumūrṣu, “wishing to die; moribund, about to die”)
• मारि (māri, “pestilence, smallpox, killing”)
• मारक (māraka, “plague, epidemic; murderer; hawk”)
• मारी (mārī, “killing, slaughter”)
• मृतिमन् (mṛtiman, “mortality”)
• मृतक (mṛtaka, “dead man, corpse; death, decease”)

Descendants

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root मृ‎ (14 c, 0 e)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “मृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 827/2.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 124
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 318-9; 370