ह्वृ
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Sanskrit
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwel- (“to lie, deceive, bend”); cognate with Ancient Greek φῆλος (phêlos, “deceitful”), Proto-Slavic *zъlъ, Avestan 𐬰𐬎𐬭𐬀𐬵 (zurah, “injustice”), Lithuanian žulas (“rough”), Latvian zveļu (“to turn aside”). Doublet of ह्वल् (hval) and हुस् (hus).
Pronunciation
[edit]Root
[edit]ह्वृ • (hvṛ) 1P
- to deviate or diverge from the right line
- to be crooked, curved or bent
- to go crookedly, wrongly or deviously
- to stumble or fall down
Derived terms
[edit]- ह्वरति (hvarati)
References
[edit]- Monier Williams (1899) “ह्वृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1308.