Sanskrit edit

Alternative scripts edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *gẓʰar-.

Pronunciation edit

Root edit

क्षर् (kṣar)

  1. to flow, stream, glide, trickle
  2. to melt away, wane, perish

References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “क्षर्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0327.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “क्षर्”, 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 028
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “क्षर्”, 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
  • Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 394