निडर نِڈر ♣ Eng. nirvana + tear
[ni-ḍar], adj. fearless, dauntless, brave, daring.
[◀MIA: Pa. niddara- ‘fearless’ ◀OIA nirdara- ‘*fearless’ (‘pitiless’ lex.) <+②nis- prep. or prefix, ‘out, forth, away from, without, dis-, -less’ (♣Eng. nirvana ) <dara- m. ‘fear’ MBh. <√dr̥̄ ‘split’ ◀PIE *der- ‘to cut, split off, pull off skin, peel, flay, tear’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. tear, tart ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. derris, derma ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 1127, ② 1136; (Turner, 1966) 7339, p.372; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 358; (MW, 1899) 0492, ② 0543; (Pokorny, 1959) 0206; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.701, ② 2.047
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