प्रातर्

From Proto-Indo-European *proh₁-tér, from *proh₁- (“early; morning”), from *pro-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πρωΐ (prōḯ, “early in the day”), Proto-West Germanic *frō (“early”) (whence German Frühe (“morning”)). Also distantly related to Old Armenian երախայրիք (eraxayrikʻ).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɾɑː.tɐ́ɾ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾɑː.t̪ɐɾ/

प्रातर् • (prātár)

1. early in the morning, at daybreak, at dawn
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 7.41.1:

     प्रातर्अग्निं प्रातर्इन्द्रं हवामहे प्रातर्मित्रावरुणा प्रातर्अश्विना ।
     प्रातर्भगं पूषणं ब्रह्मणस्पतिं प्रातः सोममुत रुद्रं हुवेम ॥

     prātaragniṃ prātarindraṃ havāmahe prātarmitrāvaruṇā prātaraśvinā.
     prātarbhagaṃ pūṣaṇaṃ brahmaṇaspatiṃ prātaḥ somamuta rudraṃ huvema.

     Agni at dawn, and Indra we invoke at dawn, and Varuṇa and Mitra, and the Aśvins twain.
     Bhaga at dawn, Pūṣan, and Brahmaṇaspati, Soma at dawn, Rudra we will invoke at dawn.

   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda
2. next morning, tomorrow

• प्रातःकाल (prātaḥkāla)

• Niya Prakrit: 𐨤𐨿𐨪𐨟 (prata)
• Pali: pātar (“early in the morning”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “प्रातर्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 706/2.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 188