शॄ

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• शर् (śar)

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• শৄ (Assamese script)
• ᬰᬻ (Balinese script)
• শৄ (Bengali script)
• 𑰫𑰵 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀰𑀿 (Brahmi script)
• ၐၗ (Burmese script)
• શૄ (Gujarati script)
• ਸ਼ୄ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌶𑍄 (Grantha script)
• ꦯꦽꦴ (Javanese script)
• 𑂬 (Kaithi script)
• ಶೄ (Kannada script)
• ឝ្ឬ (Khmer script)
• ຨ຺ຣີ (Lao script)
• ശൄ (Malayalam script)
• ᡧᡵᡳᡳ (Manchu script)
• 𑘫𑘶 (Modi script)
• ᠱᠷᠢᠢ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧋𑧗 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐱𑐻 (Newa script)
• ଶୄ (Odia script)
• ꢯꢻ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆯𑆹 (Sharada script)
• 𑖫𑖵 (Siddham script)
• ශෲ (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩿𑩙𑩛 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚧 (Takri script)
• ஶ்ரி (Tamil script)
• శౄ (Telugu script)
• ศฺฤๅ (Thai script)
• ཤྲཱྀ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒬𑒶 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨮𑨼𑨉𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to break”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀 (asar^əta, “unbroken”), 𐬯𐬀𐬭𐬌 (sari, “piece, fragment”), Ancient Greek κεραΐζω (keraḯzō, “I tear, destroy”), ακέραιος (akéraios, “whole, intact”), Old Irish do·cer (“he fell”), Tocharian B kärnau (“disabled”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕr̩ː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɕr̩ː/

Root

शॄ • (śṝ)

1. to crush, rend, break, or shatter
2. to kill (game)
3. to be crushed, broken, rent or shattered
4. to fall out or off
5. to be worn out, decay, wither, fade

Derived terms

• अशरीत् (aśarīt)
• अशरैत् (aśarait)
• अशारि (aśāri)
• अशारीत् (aśārīt)
• अशीर्य (aśīrya)
• अशीशरत् (aśīśarat)
• पराशर (parāśara)
• पराशॄ (parāśṝ)
• विशर (viśara)
• शर (śara)
• शरणि (śaraṇi)
• शरारु (śarāru)
• शरितोस् (śaritos)
• शरिष्यते (śariṣyate)
• शरीता (śarītā)
• शरीतुम् (śarītum)
• शरीतोस् (śarītos)
• शरीष्यति (śarīṣyati)
• शशरिथ (śaśaritha)
• शशरुः (śaśaruḥ)
• शशार (śaśāra)
• शश्रुः (śaśruḥ)
• शश्रे (śaśre)
• शारयति (śārayati)
• शारि (śāri)
• शाशर्ति (śāśarti)
• शिशरीषति (śiśarīṣati)
• शिशीर्षति (śiśīrṣati)
• शीर्ति (śīrti)
• शीर्यति (śīryati)
• शीर्यते (śīryate)
• शीर्यात् (śīryāt)
• शृण (śṛṇa)
• शृणाति (śṛṇāti)
• शृणान (śṛṇāna)
• शेशीर्यते (śeśīryate)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “शॄ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1088/2.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 176
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 617-8
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 338