वृ

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• ৱৃ (Assamese script)
• ᬯᬺ (Balinese script)
• বৃ (Bengali script)
• 𑰪𑰴 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀯𑀾 (Brahmi script)
• ဝၖ (Burmese script)
• વૃ (Gujarati script)
• ਵ੍ਰ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌵𑍃 (Grantha script)
• ꦮꦽ (Javanese script)
• 𑂫𑃂 (Kaithi script)
• ವೃ (Kannada script)
• វ្ឫ (Khmer script)
• ວ຺ຣິ (Lao script)
• വൃ (Malayalam script)
• ᠸᡵᡳ (Manchu script)
• 𑘪𑘵 (Modi script)
• ᠸᠷᠢ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧊𑧖 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐰𑐺 (Newa script)
• ଵୃ (Odia script)
• ꢮꢺ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆮𑆸 (Sharada script)
• 𑖪𑖴 (Siddham script)
• වෘ (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩾𑩙 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚦 (Takri script)
• வ்ரி (Tamil script)
• వృ (Telugu script)
• วฺฤ (Thai script)
• ཝྲྀ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒫𑒵 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨭𑨼𑨉 (Zanabazar Square script)

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋr̩/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ʋr̩/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“to cover”), and related to Latin operiō (“to cover, shut”), Lithuanian suvérti (“to shut”).

Older theories derived the root from Proto-Indo-Aryan *war-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *war-, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, envelop”), and connected the root to Scottish Gaelic fearann (“estate, land”), Avestan 𐬎𐬀𐬭𐬛𐬥𐬁 (uardnā, “cover, envelope”). Other theories connected the root to Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, coil”). These two Indo-European roots may have semantically influenced and merged with the Sanskrit (though Mayrhofer and Rix seem to reconstruct the *welH- as *wel- instead).

Alternative forms

• वर् (var)

Root

वृ • (vṛ)

1. to cover, screen, veil, conceal, hide, surround, obstruct
2. to close (a door)
3. to ward off, check, keep back, prevent, hinder, restrain

Derived terms

• वर (vára)
• वरति (varati)
• वाट (vāṭa)
• वारित (vārita)
• वृणाति (vṛṇāti)
• वृणीते (vṛṇīte)
• वृणुते (vṛṇute)
• वृणोति (vṛṇoti)
• वृत (vṛta)
• वृति (vṛti)
• वृत्य (vṛtya)
• वृत्र (vṛtrá)
• व्राण (vrāṇa)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “वृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 1007/1-2.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 162

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, to want”). Cognate with Latin volo (“to wish, want”), English will.

Alternative forms

• वर् (var)

Root

वृ • (vṛ)

1. to choose, select
2. to ask a person for or on behalf of
3. to solicit anything from
4. to like, love well

Derived terms

• वर (vara)
• वरयति (varayati)
• वृणीते (vṛṇīte)
• वृणोति (vṛṇoti)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “वृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1007/3.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 163