व्रण

See also: वरुण, वर्ण, and व्राण

Marathi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit व्रण (vraṇa). Doublet of वण (vaṇ, colloquial, dialectal).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɾəɳ/

Noun

व्रण • (vraṇ) n

1. scar

Sanskrit

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cut, scratch, tear, sketch an outline”). Cognates include Armenian գիր (gir, “letter”), Ancient Greek ῥινός (rhinós, “skin”), Old Church Slavonic рана (rana, “wound”), Old High German rīzan (German reißen) and Old English wrītan (English write).

Noun

व्रण • (vraṇa) stem, m

1. wound, sore, ulcer, abscess, tumour, cancer, boil, scar, cicatrix, crack

Descendants

• → Bengali: ব্রণ (bron)
• → Marathi: व्रण (vraṇ)
• → Telugu: వ్రణము (vraṇamu)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “व्रण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1042.