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नाडी

Marathi edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Prakrit णाडी (ṇāḍī), from Sanskrit नाडी (nāḍī́).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /na.ɖi/, [na.ɖiː]

Noun edit

नाडी • (nāḍī) f

  1. (botany) stem of a plant
  2. (anatomy) any tubular organ of the body
    1. an artery
    2. a vein
    3. an intestine

Further reading edit

  • Berntsen, Maxine, “नाडी”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1982-1983.
  • Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “नाडी”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
  • दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “नाडी”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ).

Sanskrit edit

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Etymology edit

From नड (naḍa, a species of reed).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

नाडी • (nāḍī́) stem, f

  1. (botany) stem of a plant
    • c. 700 CE – 900 CE, Bhāgavata Purāṇa 3.8.19:
      स इत्थमुद्वीक्ष्य तदब्जनालनाडीभिर्अन्तर्जलमाविवेश। नार्वाग्गतस्तत्खरनालनालनाभिं विचिन्वंस्तदविन्दताजः॥
      sa itthamudvīkṣya tadabjanālanāḍībhirantarjalamāviveśa. nārvāggatastatkharanālanālanābhiṃ vicinvaṃstadavindatājaḥ.
      Lord Brahmā, thus contemplating, entered the water through the channel of the stem of the lotus. But in spite of entering the stem and going nearer to the navel of Viṣṇu, he could not trace out the root.
  2. (anatomy) a blood vessel
    • c. 700 CE – 900 CE, Bhāgavata Purāṇa 3.26.67:
      विष्णुर्गत्यैव चरणौ नोदतिष्ठत्तदा विराट्। नाडीर्नद्यो लोहितेन नोदतिष्ठत्तदा विराट्॥
      viṣṇurgatyaiva caraṇau nodatiṣṭhattadā virāṭ. nāḍīrnadyo lohitena nodatiṣṭhattadā virāṭ.
      Lord Viṣṇu entered his feet with the faculty of locomotion, but Virāj refused to stand up even then. The rivers entered his blood vessels with the blood and the power of circulation, but still the cosmic being could not be made to stir.
    1. an artery
    2. a vein
  3. any pipe or tube
  4. a flute
  5. a juggling trick, deception
  6. a fistulous sore
  7. (physiology) the pulse
  8. any hole or crevice
  9. a strap of leather, thong

Declension edit

Feminine ī-stem declension of नाडी (nāḍī́)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative नाडी
nāḍī́ 		नाड्यौ / नाडी¹
nāḍyaù / nāḍī́¹ 		नाड्यः / नाडीः¹
nāḍyàḥ / nāḍī́ḥ¹
Vocative नाडि
nā́ḍi 		नाड्यौ / नाडी¹
nā́ḍyau / nā́ḍī¹ 		नाड्यः / नाडीः¹
nā́ḍyaḥ / nā́ḍīḥ¹
Accusative नाडीम्
nāḍī́m 		नाड्यौ / नाडी¹
nāḍyaù / nāḍī́¹ 		नाडीः
nāḍī́ḥ
Instrumental नाड्या
nāḍyā́ 		नाडीभ्याम्
nāḍī́bhyām 		नाडीभिः
nāḍī́bhiḥ
Dative नाड्यै
nāḍyaí 		नाडीभ्याम्
nāḍī́bhyām 		नाडीभ्यः
nāḍī́bhyaḥ
Ablative नाड्याः / नाड्यै²
nāḍyā́ḥ / nāḍyaí² 		नाडीभ्याम्
nāḍī́bhyām 		नाडीभ्यः
nāḍī́bhyaḥ
Genitive नाड्याः / नाड्यै²
nāḍyā́ḥ / nāḍyaí² 		नाड्योः
nāḍyóḥ 		नाडीनाम्
nāḍī́nām
Locative नाड्याम्
nāḍyā́m 		नाड्योः
nāḍyóḥ 		नाडीषु
nāḍī́ṣu
Notes
  • ¹Vedic
  • ²Brāhmaṇas

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Further reading edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “नाडी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 534.
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “nāḍī”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
  • Apte, Macdonell (2022) “नाडी”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “nāḍīˊ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “nā́ka- - NĀTH”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 33
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