अजगर اجگر ♣ Eng. gorge, voracious

अजगर اجگر ♣ Eng. gorge, voracious

[aj₍a₎gar], m. lit. ‘a goat-swallower’, a python, boa constrictor.

[←OIA ajagará- m. ‘boa constrictor’ AV. <+②ajá- m. ‘he-goat’ RV. <gará- ‘swallowing’ Pāṇ. <√gr̥̄ ‘swallow’ ◀PIE *gʷer-, gʷerǝ- ‘to swallow, drink, devour; throat’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. craw ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. gorge, voracious, devour ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0023; (Turner, 1966) 148, 4034, p.228, ② 145; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 010; (MW, 1899) 0009, 0363; (Pokorny, 1959) 0474, ② 0006; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.469, ② 1.051