नु

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• नू (nū)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”). Cognate with Albanian ni (“now”), Lithuanian nù (“now”), Avestan 𐬥𐬏 (nū, “now”), Latin num (“now”), Old English nū (whence English now).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /nú/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /n̪u/

Adverb

नु • (nú)

1. now
2. at once
3. now then
4. so now

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “नु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 567/1.