Monday, March 8, 2010

बीघा بیگھا ♣ Eng. with + grasp

बीघा بیگھا ♣ Eng. with + grasp

[bīgʰā], m. a measure of land.

[◀MIA ∙∙∙ ◀OIA vigraha- m. ‘*division of land’ <.vi-√grah ‘to hold apart, separate, isolate’ <+②ví- ‘apart, away from, in different directions’ (♣Eng. with, wide ) <√grah ‘take’ ◀PIE *ghrebh-, gherbh- ‘to take, grab, seize, reach’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. grasp ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. grab ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0210; (Turner, 1966) 11668, p.234; (MW, 1899) 0957, 0371, ② 0949; (Pokorny, 1959) 0455, ② 1175; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.505, ② 2.549

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