स्फुर्

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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (to kick, push away, make a rash movement). Cognate with Ancient Greek σπαίρω (spaírō, to hammer, make rapid movements), Latin spernō (move aside, push away), English spur, spurn.

Pronunciation edit

Root edit

स्फुर् (sphur)

  1. to dart, rebound, swing
  2. to tremble, throb, quiver, twitch
  3. to hurt, destroy

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “स्फुर्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1270.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 198
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्फुर्”, 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
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “स्फुर्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press