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कृ

कृ

Translingual

Syllable

कृ (kr̥)

  1. The Devanagari consonant k(a) with the matra diacritic -r̥; for vocalic

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Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷer- (to do, make). Cognate with Latin creō.

Root

कृ (kṛ)

  1. to make

Derived terms

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 301
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 21