कृ

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• কৃ (Assamese script)
• ᬓᬺ (Balinese script)
• কৃ (Bengali script)
• 𑰎𑰴 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀓𑀾 (Brahmi script)
• ကၖ (Burmese script)
• કૃ (Gujarati script)
• ਕ੍ਰ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌕𑍃 (Grantha script)
• ꦏꦽ (Javanese script)
• 𑂍𑃂 (Kaithi script)
• ಕೃ (Kannada script)
• ក្ឫ (Khmer script)
• ກ຺ຣິ (Lao script)
• കൃ (Malayalam script)
• ᡬᡵᡳ (Manchu script)
• 𑘎𑘵 (Modi script)
• ᢉᠷᠢ (Mongolian script)
• 𑦮𑧖 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐎𑐺 (Newa script)
• କୃ (Odia script)
• ꢒꢺ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆑𑆸 (Sharada script)
• 𑖎𑖴 (Siddham script)
• කෘ (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩜𑩙 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚊 (Takri script)
• க்ரி (Tamil script)
• కృ (Telugu script)
• กฺฤ (Thai script)
• ཀྲྀ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒏𑒵 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨋𑨼𑨉 (Zanabazar Square script)

• स्कृ (skṛ) — especially after सम्- (sam-) and परि- (pari-)
• ईकृ (īkṛ) — especially after adjectives in the sense -ize

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *kar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kar-, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.

Root

कृ • (√kṛ)

1. to do, make

Derived terms

• अकरणि (akaraṇi, “non-accomplishment, failure”)
• अपस्कर (apaskara, “any part of a carriage, a wheel”)
• आस्क्र (āskra, “attacking, assaulting”)
• उपस्कर (upaskara, “utensil, implement, instrument”)
• उपस्कार (upaskāra, “anything additional, a supplement”)
• उपस्कृत (upaskṛta, “furnished”)
• कर (kará, “doer, maker; hand”)
• करण (karaṇa, “doing, making”)
• करणीय (karaṇīya, “to be done or made”)
• करस् (káras, “a deed, action”)
• करिष्ठ (káriṣṭha, “doing very much”)
• करिष्णु (kariṣṇu, “doing, accomplishing”)
• करुण (karúṇa, “action, holy work”)
• करोति (karóti, “he makes, does”)
• कर्तवे (kártave, “'to make'”)
• कर्तव्य (kartavya, “obligation, duty”)
• कर्तुम् (kártum, “'to do'”)
• कर्तृ (kartṛ, “doer, maker”)
• कर्तोस् (kártos, “'to do', (Vedic infinitive)”)
• कर्त्र (kártra, “spell, charm”)
• कर्त्व (kártva, “obligation, duty”)
• कर्मकृत् (karmakṛt, “performing any work, skillful in work”)
• कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action”)
• कर्वर (kárvara, “deed, action”)
• कार (kāra, “act, action”)
• कारक (kāraka, “making, doing, acting”)
• कारण (kāraṇa, “cause, reason”)
• कारयितव्य (kārayitavya, “to be caused or effected or made to do”)
• कारयितृ (kārayitṛ, “performer of a religious ceremony”)
• कारिन् (kārin, “doing, making, effecting”)
• कारु (kāru, “artisan, mechanic”)
• कारुक (kāruka, “artisan, artificer”)
• कार्य (kārya, “work or business to be done, duty”)
• कृणोति (kṛṇóti, “he makes, does”)
• कृति (kṛ́ti, “act of doing”)
• कृत्नु (kṛtnú, “working well, able to work, skilful”)
• कृत्य (kṛ́tya, “to be done”)
• कृत्या (kṛtyā́, “action, act, deed”)
• कृत्रिम (kṛtríma, “made artificially, factitious, artificial”)
• कृत्वन् (kṛ́tvan, “causing, effecting”)
• कृत्वरी (kṛ́tvarī, “the magic powers”)
• क्रतु (krátu, “plan, design, intention”)
• क्रिया (kriyā, “doing, performing, performance”)
• चक्रि (cákri, “doing, effecting”)
• चिकीर्षा (cikīrṣā, “intention or desire to make or do or perform”)
• चिकीर्षु (cikīrṣu, “intending to make or do or perform”)
• चिकीर्ष् (cikīrṣ, “wishing to do”)
• तनूकृथ (tanūkṛtha, “preservation of the person”)
• तुविकूर्मि (tuvikūrmi, “powerful in working”)
• तुविकूर्मिन् (tuvikūrmin, “powerful in working”)
• दशकृत्वस् (daśakṛtvas, “ten times”)
• पञ्चकृत्वस् (pañcakṛtvas, “fivefold”)
• परिष्कर (pariṣkara, “ornament, decoration”)
• परिष्कार (pariṣkāra, “ornament, decoration”)
• परिष्कृत (pariṣkṛta, “prepared, adorned, embellished”)
• परिष्क्रिया (pariṣkriyā, “adorning, decorating”)
• पापकर्मिन् (pāpakarmin, “wrong-doing, wicked”)
• पापकृत् (pāpakṛt, “wrong-doing, wicked”)
• पुत्रकृथ (putrakṛtha, “bringing forth or procreation of children”)
• बहुकृत्वस् (bahukṛtvas, “many times”)
• संस्करण (saṃskaraṇa, “the act of putting together, preparing”)
• संस्कर्तव्य (saṃskartavya, “to be arranged or prepared”)
• संस्कर्तृ (saṃskartṛ, “preparer, dresser”)
• संस्कार (saṃskāra, “putting together, forming well, making perfect”)
• संस्कारक (saṃskāraka, “preparing, making ready”)
• संस्कार्य (saṃskārya, “to be prepared or perfected”)
• संस्कृत (saṃskṛtá, “put together, well constructed; Sanskrit”)
• संस्कृति (saṃskṛti, “making ready, preparation, perfection”)
• संस्क्रिया (saṃskriyā, “making ready, preparation”)
• सुकृत् (sukṛt, “doing good, benevolent”)

 

Further reading

• Monier Williams (1899) “कृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 301.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 21