Sanskrit

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Alternative forms

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *reg- (to dye). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *ra(n)ǰ- (to colour, dye), whence Persian رخش (raxš, red), Khwarezmian rxtk (raxtak, red), Mazanderani رش (raš, red (of cattle)), Northern Kurdish reş (black) and Sogdian [script needed] (rɣš- /⁠raxš⁠/, Rakhsh), as well as Ancient Greek ῥέζω (rhézō, I dye, paint).

Root

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रञ्ज् (rañj)

  1. to redden
  2. to dye or colour

Derived terms

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Primary Verbal Forms
Derived Nominal Forms

References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “रञ्ज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 861/2.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 134
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 424-425
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