रञ्ज्

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“to dye”).

Cognate with Proto-Iranian *ra(n)ǰ- (“to colour, dye”) whence Persian رخش (rakhsh, “red”), Khwarezmian rxtk (raxtak, “red”), Mazanderani رش (raš, “red (of cattle)”), Kurdish and Sogdian [script needed] (rɣš- /⁠raxš⁠/, “Rakhsh”).

Root

रञ्ज् • (rañj)

1. to redden
2. to dye or color

Derived terms

• रजते (rajate)
• रक्त (rakta, “blood”)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “रञ्ज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 861/2.