निरा نِرا ♣ Eng. nirvana + Erebus
[nirā], adj. pure, real, only, merely, utter, sheer.
[◀MIA: Pk. ṇĭ̄raya- ‘free from dust, pure’ ◀OIA nīraja- ‘free from dust’ MBh. <+②nis- prep. or prefix, ‘out, forth, away from, without, dis-, -less’ (♣Eng. nirvana ) <rajas- n. ‘dust, pollen’ BhP. ◀PIE *regʷos- ‘darkness’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. Erebus ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 1128, ② 1136; (Turner, 1966) 7557, 10581; (MW, 1899) 0543, 0863, ② 0543; (Pokorny, 1959) 0857; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.426, ② 2.047
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