मञ्ज्

See also: मञ्जु

Sanskrit

Etymology

Compared with Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon, “charm”), Romanian mângâia (“to caress”).[1]

Root

मञ्ज् • (mañj) (class 10)

to cleanse or be bright.

References

Monier Williams (1899) “मञ्ज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0773.

Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 731, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 731

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