दु

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Khaling

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Noun

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दु (du)

  1. beginning, progress, order

Usage notes

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  • used with possessive prefix

References

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

Sanskrit

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Root

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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

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References

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  • 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