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

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *mar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mar-, from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die, disappear”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬭- (mar-), Persian مردن (mordan), Northern Kurdish mirin, مردن (mirdin), Old Armenian մեռանիմ (meṙanim), Old Church Slavonic мрѣти (mrěti), Lithuanian mirti, Latin morior.

Pronunciation

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

Root

मृ • (mṛ)

1. to die

Usage notes

The passive verb म्रियते (mriyáte) functions as the main present verb.

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root मृ (0 c, 10 e)

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

Primary Verbal Forms

• मरति (márati) (Present)
• मरिष्यति (mariṣyáti) (Future)
• मर्ता (martā́) (Periphrastic Future)
• अमृत (ámṛta) (Aorist)
• मृषीष्ट (mṛṣīṣṭá) (Benedictive)
• ममार (mamā́ra) (Perfect)

Secondary Forms

• म्रियते (mriyáte) (Passive)
• अमारि (ámāri) (Passive Aorist)
• मारयति (māráyati) (Causative)
• अमीमरत् (ámīmarat) (Causative Aorist)
• मार्यते (māryate) (Passive of Causative)
• मुमूर्षति (mumūrṣati) (Desiderative)
• मरीमर्ति (marīmarti) (Intensive)
• मेम्रीयते (memrīyate) (Intensive)

Non-Finite Forms

• मृत (mṛtá) (Past Participle)
• मर्तुम् (mártum) (Infinitive)
• मर्तवे (martave) (Infinitive)
• मृत्वा (mṛtvā́) (Gerund)
• मर्तव्य (martavya) (Gerundive)
• मिमारयिषु (mimārayiṣu) (Desiderative Participle of Causative)

Derived Nominal Forms

• 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”)
• मर्य (márya, “young man; suitor; mortal”)
• मर्मन् (márman, “mortal spot, vulnerability; core”)
• अमृत (amṛ́ta, “immortal, undying, ambrosia, nectar”)
• मृति (mṛti, “death, dying”)
• मम्रि (mamri, “mortal”)
• मर्त्य (mártya, “human, man, mortal being”)
• मर्त्यता (martyatā, “mortality”)
• मर्त्या (mártyā, “death, dying”)
• मार्त्य (mārtya, “mortality; corporeal part”)
• मुमूर्षा (mumūrṣā, “desire for death; impatience with life”)
• मुमूर्षु (mumūrṣu, “wishing to die; moribund, about to die”)
• मारक (māraka, “plague, epidemic; murderer; hawk”)
• मारि (māri, “pestilence, smallpox, killing”)
• मारी (mārī, “killing, slaughter”)
• मृतिमन् (mṛtiman, “mortality”)
• मृतक (mṛtaka, “dead man, corpse; death, decease”)
• मृत्यु (mṛtyú, “death, dying”)

Prefixed Root Forms

• अनुमृ (anumṛ)
• अभिमृ (abhimṛ)
• परिमृ (parimṛ)

Further reading

• Monier Williams (1899), “मृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 827, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885), “1 mṛ, 'die'”, in The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 124