नग्न

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *nagnás, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“naked”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬕𐬥𐬀 (maġna), Latin nūdus, Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós), English naked.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /nɐɡ.nɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈn̪ɐɡ.n̪ɐ/

नग्न • (nagná) stem

1. naked, bare
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 8.79.2:

     अभ्यूर्णोति यन् नग्नं भिषक्ति विश्वं यत्तुरम् ।
     प्रेमन्धः ख्यन्निः श्रोणो भूत् ॥

     abhyūrṇoti yan nagnaṃ bhiṣakti viśvaṃ yatturam.
     premandhaḥ khyanniḥ śroṇo bhūt.

     [Soma] clothes everyone who is naked, he cures all that is sick;
     The blind man sees, the cripple walks.

2. desolate, desert
3. new

नग्न • (nagná) stem, m

1. a naked mendicant (especially a बौद्ध, but also a mere hypocrite)

• *उन्नग्न (unnagna)

• Pali: nagga, naggiyā
• Prakrit: 𑀡𑀕𑁆𑀕 (ṇagga), 𑀡𑀕𑀺𑀡 (ṇagiṇa)
  • Bengali: নাঙ্গা (naṅga)
  • Hindi: नंगा (naṅgā)
  • Nepali: नांगो (nāṅgo)
  • Punjabi: ਨੰਗਾ (naṅgā)
  • Romani: nango
  • → Tamil: நக்க (nakka)
    • ⇒ Tamil: நக்கவரம் (nakkavaram)
      • → English: Nicobar
• → Bengali: নগ্ন (nogno)

• Monier Williams (1899) “नग्न”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0525.