व्रण

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit व्रण (vraṇa). Doublet of वण (vaṇ, colloquial, dialectal).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɾəɳ/

व्रण • (vraṇ) n

1. scar

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cut, scratch, tear, sketch an outline”). Cognates include Armenian գիր (gir, “letter”), Ancient Greek ῥινός (rhinós, “skin”), Old Church Slavonic рана (rana, “wound”), Old High German rīzan (German reißen) and Old English wrītan (English write).

व्रण • (vraṇa) stem, m

1. wound, sore, ulcer, abscess, tumour, cancer, boil, scar, cicatrix, crack

• → Bengali: ব্রণ (bron)
• → Marathi: व्रण (vraṇ)
• → Telugu: వ్రణము (vraṇamu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “व्रण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1042.