जिघ्रति
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ȷ́ígʰrati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǰʰígʰrati, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰí-gʷʰreh₁-ti, from *gʷʰreh₁- (“to smell, sniff”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὀσφραίνομαι (osphraínomai).
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Verb edit
जिघ्रति • (jíghrati) third-singular present indicative (root घ्रा, class 1, type P, present, or class 3, type P, present)
- to smell, sniff
- to perceive
- (figuratively) to kill
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References edit
- Monier Williams (1899) “जिघ्रति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 379.