लुब्ध

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit लुब्ध (lubdha).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /lʊbd̪ʱ/

लुब्ध • (lubdh) m

1. (rare, formal) a hunter

   Synonyms: (most common) शिकारी (śikārī), (formal) आखेटक (ākheṭak)

लुब्ध • (lubdh) (indeclinable)

1. eagerly desirous, covetous, lustful

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “लुब्ध”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “लुब्ध”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “लुब्ध”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-European *lubʰ-tó-s, from *lewbʰ- (“to love, desire, covet”). By surface analysis, लुभ् (lubh, root) +‎ -त (-ta).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /lub.dʱɐ/, [lub̚.dʱɐ]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈl̪ub.d̪ʱɐ/, [ˈl̪ub̚.d̪ʱɐ]

लुब्ध • (lubdha) stem

1. desirous of, covetous, longing for
2. bewildered, confused
   • c. 700 BCE – 500 BCE, Aitareya Brāhmaṇa
3. greedy

लुब्ध • (lubdha) stem, m or n

1. a hunter
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
2. a lustful man, libertine
3. the star Sirius

• Pali: luddha
• Ashokan Prakrit:
  • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀮𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥 (luddha), 𑀮𑁄𑀤𑁆𑀥 (loddha), 𑀮𑁄𑀟𑁆𑀠 (loḍḍha)
  • Sauraseni Prakrit:
    • Gurjar Apabhramsa:
      • Old Gujarati: [script needed] (lūdhaḍī)
  • Magadhi Prakrit:
    • Odia: [script needed] (lodhā)
• → Hindi: लुब्ध (lubdh) (learned)

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “lubdha”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Monier Williams (1899) “लुब्ध”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 904, column 3.