वरिष्ठ
Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वरिष्ठ (váriṣṭha).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
वरिष्ठ • (variṣṭh) (indeclinable)
Sanskrit edit
Etymology 1 edit
Superlative form of the adjective वर (vára, “precious, desirable”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hwárištʰas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwáriṣṭʰas, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
वरिष्ठ • (váriṣṭha) stem
Derived terms edit
- वरिष्ठक (váriṣṭhaka, “most excellent, best”)
Etymology 2 edit
Superlative form of the adjective उरु (urú, “broad, wide”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hwárištʰas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hwáriṣṭʰas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wer- (“broad”). Related to वरुण (váruṇa, “Varuna”).
Adjective edit
वरिष्ठ • (váriṣṭha) stem
- widest
- most encompassing
- having the widest circumference
See also edit
- वरीयस् (várīyas, “better, wider”)
References edit
- Monier Williams (1899) “वरिष्ठ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 921,922,923.