धृ

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• ধৃ (Assamese script)
• ᬥᬺ (Balinese script)
• ধৃ (Bengali script)
• 𑰠𑰴 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀥𑀾 (Brahmi script)
• ဓၖ (Burmese script)
• ધૃ (Gujarati script)
• ਧ੍ਰ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌧𑍃 (Grantha script)
• ꦣꦽ (Javanese script)
• 𑂡𑃂 (Kaithi script)
• ಧೃ (Kannada script)
• ធ្ឫ (Khmer script)
• ຘ຺ຣິ (Lao script)
• ധൃ (Malayalam script)
• ᢡᡵᡳ (Manchu script)
• 𑘠𑘵 (Modi script)
• ᢑᠾᠷᠢ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧀𑧖 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐢𑐺 (Newa script)
• ଧୃ (Odia script)
• ꢤꢺ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆣𑆸 (Sharada script)
• 𑖠𑖴 (Siddham script)
• ධෘ (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩮𑩙 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚜 (Takri script)
• த்⁴ரி (Tamil script)
• ధృ (Telugu script)
• ธฺฤ (Thai script)
• དྷྲྀ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒡𑒵 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨜𑨼𑨉 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *dʰar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰar-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /dʱr̩/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /d̪ʱr̩/

Root

धृ • (dhṛ)

1. to hold

Derived terms

• धरति (dharati)
• धरिमन् (dhariman)
• धर्म (dharma)
• धर्मन् (dharman)
• धर्मिन् (dharmin)
• धारयति (dhārayati)
• धारित (dhārita)
• धीर्य (dhīrya)
• धैर्य (dhairya)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “धृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 519/1.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 778-9; 796
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University