दु

Khaling

Noun

दु (du)

1. beginning, progress, order

Usage notes

• used with possessive prefix

References

• “दु”, in खालिङ - नेपाली - अङ्‍ग्रेजी शब्दकोश (Khaling - Nepali - English Dictionary), Nepal: SIL International, 2016.

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• দু (Assamese script)
• ᬤᬸ (Balinese script)
• দু (Bengali script)
• 𑰟𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀤𑀼 (Brahmi script)
• ဒု (Burmese script)
• દુ (Gujarati script)
• ਦੁ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌦𑍁 (Grantha script)
• ꦢꦸ (Javanese script)
• 𑂠𑂳 (Kaithi script)
• ದು (Kannada script)
• ទុ (Khmer script)
• ທຸ (Lao script)
• ദു (Malayalam script)
• ᡩᡠ (Manchu script)
• 𑘟𑘳 (Modi script)
• ᢑᠤ (Mongolian script)
• 𑦿𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐡𑐸 (Newa script)
• ଦୁ (Odia script)
• ꢣꢸ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆢𑆶 (Sharada script)
• 𑖟𑖲 (Siddham script)
• දු (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩭𑩒 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚛𑚰 (Takri script)
• து³ (Tamil script)
• దు (Telugu script)
• ทุ (Thai script)
• དུ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒠𑒳 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨛𑨃 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w- (“to burn”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δαίω (daíō, “kindle”), and perhaps related to Latin duellum, bellum (“war”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /du/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d̪u/

Root

दु • (du)

1. to be burnt, consumed with internal heat or sorrow
2. to burn, consume with fire
3. to cause heat, pain or sorrow

Derived terms

• दुत (dutá, “pained, afflicted”)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “दु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0482.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 075
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “दु”, 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 123
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 104
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0179”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0179