वज्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (fresh, strong). Cognate with Latin vegeō (excite, arouse; be lively) whence English vegetation; Latin vigeō (thrive, be alive) whence vigil, vigor; English wake, watch.

Pronunciation

Root

वज् • (vaj)

  1. to be hard or strong

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “वज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0913.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 152
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “वज्”, 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
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