धृ

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

ধৃ (Assamese script)
ᬥᬺ (Balinese script)
ধৃ (Bengali script)
𑰠𑰴 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀥𑀾 (Brahmi script)
ဓၖ (Burmese script)
ધૃ (Gujarati script)
ਧ੍ਰ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌧𑍃 (Grantha script)
ꦣꦽ (Javanese script)
𑂡𑃂 (Kaithi script)
ಧೃ (Kannada script)
ធ្ឫ (Khmer script)
ຘ຺ຣິ (Lao script)
ധൃ (Malayalam script)
ᢡᡵᡳ (Manchu script)
𑘠𑘵 (Modi script)
ᢑᠾᠷᠢ (Mongolian script)
𑧀𑧖 (Nandinagari script)
𑐢𑐺 (Newa script)
ଧୃ (Odia script)
ꢤꢺ (Saurashtra script)
𑆣𑆸 (Sharada script)
𑖠𑖴 (Siddham script)
ධෘ (Sinhalese script)
𑩮𑩙 (Soyombo script)
𑚜 (Takri script)
த்⁴ரி (Tamil script)
ధృ (Telugu script)
ธฺฤ (Thai script)
དྷྲྀ (Tibetan script)
𑒡𑒵 (Tirhuta script)
𑨜𑨼𑨉 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *dʰar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰar-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /dʱr̩/

(Classical) IPA^(key): /d̪ʱr̩/

Root

धृ • (dhṛ)

to hold

Derived terms

धरति (dharati)
धरिमन् (dhariman)
धर्म (dharma)
धर्मन् (dharman)
धर्मिन् (dharmin)
धारयति (dhārayati)
धारित (dhārita)
धीर्य (dhīrya)
धैर्य (dhairya)

References

Monier Williams (1899) “धृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 519/1.
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 778-9; 796
Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University

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