Sunday, December 13, 2009

निर्धन نِردَھن ♣ Eng. nirvana + fountain

निर्धन نِردَھن ♣ Eng. nirvana + fountain

[nir-dʰan], adj. poor, penniless.

[←OIA nirdhana- ‘poor’ MBh. <+②nis- prep. or prefix, ‘out, forth, away from, without, dis-, -less’ (♣Eng. nirvana ) <dhána- n. ‘contest, prize, booty, property’ RV. <√dhan ‘run’ ◀PIE *dhen- ‘to run, flow’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. font, fountain ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 1131, ② 1136; (Turner, 1966) 7351, 6717, p.384; (MW, 1899) 0508, ② 0543; (Pokorny, 1959) 0249; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.771, ② 2.047

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