मृ

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
  • মৃ (Assamese script)
  • ᬫᬺ (Balinese script)
  • মৃ (Bengali script)
  • 𑰦𑰴 (Bhaiksuki script)
  • 𑀫𑀾 (Brahmi script)
  • မၖ (Burmese script)
  • મૃ (Gujarati script)
  • ਮ੍ਰ (Gurmukhi script)
  • 𑌮𑍃 (Grantha script)
  • ꦩꦽ (Javanese script)
  • 𑂧𑃂 (Kaithi script)
  • ಮೃ (Kannada script)
  • ម្ឫ (Khmer script)
  • ມ຺ຣິ (Lao script)
  • മൃ (Malayalam script)
  • ᠮᡵᡳ (Manchu script)
  • 𑘦𑘵 (Modi script)
  • ᠮᠷᠢ (Mongolian script)
  • 𑧆𑧖 (Nandinagari script)
  • 𑐩𑐺 (Newa script)
  • ମୃ (Odia script)
  • ꢪꢺ (Saurashtra script)
  • 𑆩𑆸 (Sharada script)
  • 𑖦𑖴 (Siddham script)
  • මෘ (Sinhalese script)
  • 𑩴𑩙 (Soyombo script)
  • 𑚢 (Takri script)
  • ம்ரி (Tamil script)
  • మృ (Telugu script)
  • มฺฤ (Thai script)
  • མྲྀ (Tibetan script)
  • 𑒧𑒵 (Tirhuta script)
  • 𑨢𑨼𑨉 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

Pronunciation

Root

मृ • (mṛ)

  1. to die

Derived terms
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root मृ‎ (0 c, 5 e)
Primary Verbal Forms
  • मरति (márati, Present)
  • मरते (márate, Present)
  • मरिष्यति (mariṣyáti, Future)
  • मर्ता (martā́, Periphrastic Future)
  • अमृत (ámṛta, Aorist)
  • ममार (mamā́ra, Perfect)
Secondary Forms
  • म्रियते (mriyáte, Passive)
  • मारयति (māráyati, Causative)
  • अमीमरत् (ámīmarat, Causative)
  • मुमूर्षति (mumūrṣati, Desiderative)
  • मरीमर्ति (marīmarti, Intensive)
Non-Finite Forms
  • मर्तुम् (mártum, Infinitive)
  • मृत्वा (mṛtvā́, Gerund)
  • मृत (mṛtá, Past Participle)
Derived Nominal Forms
  • मृत्यु (mṛtyú, “death, dying”)
  • मार (mā́ra, “slaying, killing, destroying; pestilence”)
  • मारण (mā́raṇa, “death, slaughter, killing; destruction; slayer”)
  • मारुक (mā́ruka, “perishing, dying”)
  • मर (mara, “dying, death; killing”)
  • मरण (maraṇa, “death, dying”)
  • मृत (mṛtá, “death”)
  • मर्त (márta, “mortal, man”)
  • मर्तव्य (martavya, “liable to die”)
  • मर्य (márya, “young man; suitor; mortal”)
  • मर्मन् (márman, “mortal spot, vulnerability; core”)
  • अमृत (amṛ́ta, “immortal, undying, ambrosia, nectar”)
  • मृति (mṛtí, “death, dying”)
  • मम्रि (mamri, “mortal”)
  • मर्त्य (mártya, “human, man, mortal being”)
  • मर्त्यता (martyatā, “mortality”)
  • मर्त्या (mártyā, “death, dying”)
  • मार्त्य (mārtya, “mortality; corporeal part”)
  • मरु (marú, “desert, waste”)
  • मुमूर्षा (mumūrṣā, “desire for death; impatience with life”)
  • मुमूर्षु (mumūrṣu, “wishing to die; moribund, about to die”)
  • मारि (māri, “pestilence, smallpox, killing”)
  • मारक (māraka, “plague, epidemic; murderer; hawk”)
  • मारी (mārī, “killing, slaughter”)
  • मृतिमन् (mṛtiman, “mortality”)
  • मृतक (mṛtaka, “dead man, corpse; death, decease”)

Descendants
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root मृ‎ (13 c, 0 e)

References
  • Monier Williams (1899) “मृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 827/2.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 124
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 318-9; 370
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