[nōcnā], v.t. to pluck out, scratch.
[◀MIA: Pk. luṁcaï ‘tears out (e.g. hair)’; Pa. luñcati ‘pulls out, plucks (a bird), tears, peels’ ◀OIA luñcati ‘plucks out’ MBh. <√luñc ‘pluck out’ ◀PIE *reuk- <*reu-, reu̯ǝ- : rū̆- ‘to tear out, dig up, open, etc.’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. rough ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. rag, rug, ruin ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 1159; (Turner, 1966) 11074, p.643; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 584; (MW, 1899) 0904; (Pokorny, 1959) 0868; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 3.445
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