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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Indo-Aryan *kŕ̥ps, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥ps, from Proto-Indo-European *kérp-s ~ *kr̥p-é-s, from *krep- (body). Cognate with Avestan 𐬐𐬆𐬵𐬭𐬞𐬇𐬨 (kəhrpə̄m), Middle Persian klp (kirb, body, form), Latin corpus, Old Armenian որովայն (orovayn) and Old English hrif (whence English riff).

Noun

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कृप् (kṛ́p) stemf

  1. beautiful appearance, beauty, splendour
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.15.5:
      पावकया यश्चितयन्त्या कृपा क्षामन्रुरुच उषसो न भानुना ।
      pāvakayā yaścitayantyā kṛpā kṣāmanruruca uṣaso na bhānunā.
      Who with his purifying, eye-attracting form hath shone upon the earth as with the light of Dawn
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Etymology 2

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Often taken to be inherited from Proto-Indo-European *krep-, *kʷrep- (to be grumpy; to moan), and compared with Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬥 (karapan, anti-Zoroastrian priest, teacher), Khwarezmian [script needed] (krb-, to moan, mumble, babble), Parthian [script needed] (kyrbg, pious), Middle Persian [script needed] (krpk /⁠kirbag⁠/, virtue, good deed), Latin crepō (to crack, creak), and Russian кропота́ть (kropotátʹ, to grumble, be grumpy). The semantic divergence of these words is difficult to explain, however.

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कृप् (kṛp)

  1. to pity
  2. to be compassionate
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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “कृप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0305/1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 393; 409
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 241