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स्फुर्

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Sanskrit

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (to kick, push away, make a rash movement). Cognate with Ancient Greek σπαίρω (spaírō, to hammer, make rapid movements), Latin spernō (move aside, push away), English spur, spurn.

Pronunciation

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Root

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स्फुर् (sphur)

  1. to dart, rebound, swing
  2. to tremble, throb, quiver, twitch
  3. to hurt, destroy

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “स्फुर्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1270.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 198
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्फुर्”, 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
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “स्फुर्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press