अम्
Sanskrit
[edit]Alternative scripts
[edit]Alternative scripts
- অম্ (Assamese script)
- ᬅᬫ᭄ (Balinese script)
- অম্ (Bengali script)
- 𑰀𑰦𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀅𑀫𑁆 (Brahmi script)
- အမ် (Burmese script)
- અમ્ (Gujarati script)
- ਅਮ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌅𑌮𑍍 (Grantha script)
- ꦄꦩ꧀ (Javanese script)
- 𑂃𑂧𑂹 (Kaithi script)
- ಅಮ್ (Kannada script)
- អម៑ (Khmer script)
- ອມ຺ (Lao script)
- അമ് (Malayalam script)
- ᠠᠮ (Manchu script)
- 𑘀𑘦𑘿 (Modi script)
- ᠠᠮ (Mongolian script)
- 𑦠𑧆𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐀𑐩𑑂 (Newa script)
- ଅମ୍ (Odia script)
- ꢂꢪ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆃𑆩𑇀 (Sharada script)
- 𑖀𑖦𑖿 (Siddham script)
- අම් (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩐𑩴 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚀𑚢𑚶 (Takri script)
- அம் (Tamil script)
- అమ్ (Telugu script)
- อมฺ (Thai script)
- ཨ་མ྄ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒁𑒧𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨀𑨢𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- (“to seize, take hold; swear”). Cognate with Old Norse ama (“to bother, wound”) and possibly Latin amō (“to love”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Root
[edit]अम् • (am)
Derived terms
[edit]- अमीति (ámīti)
References
[edit]- Monier Williams (1899) “अम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0080.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 03
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “अम्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 277
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0778”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0778