स्तृणाति

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Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *str̥náHti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *str̥náHti, from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (to scatter, spread, strew). Cognate with Latin sternō (I bestrew, sprinkle), Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌 (stərəiti), Ancient Greek στόρνῡμι (stórnūmi), Old Church Slavonic (о-)строуити ((o-)struiti), Old English strewian (whence English strew).

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Verb[edit]

स्तृणाति (stṛnā́ti) third-singular present indicative (root स्तॄ)

  1. to scatter, strew, bestrew
  2. to spread, spread out, spread over

References[edit]

  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्तृ”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • स्तृणाति” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 639.
  • Monier Williams (1899) “स्तृणाति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1260.
  • Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 1866, page 1071-b.