धृ

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

• ধৃ (Assamese script)
• ᬥᬺ (Balinese script)
• ধৃ (Bengali script)
• 𑰠𑰴 (Bhaiksuki script)
• 𑀥𑀾 (Brahmi script)
• ဓၖ (Burmese script)
• ધૃ (Gujarati script)
• ਧ੍ਰ (Gurmukhi script)
• 𑌧𑍃 (Grantha script)
• ꦣꦽ (Javanese script)
• 𑂡𑃂 (Kaithi script)
• ಧೃ (Kannada script)
• ធ្ឫ (Khmer script)
• ຘ຺ຣິ (Lao script)
• ധൃ (Malayalam script)
• ᢡᡵᡳ (Manchu script)
• 𑘠𑘵 (Modi script)
• ᢑᠾᠷᠢ (Mongolian script)
• 𑧀𑧖 (Nandinagari script)
• 𑐢𑐺 (Newa script)
• ଧୃ (Odia script)
• ꢤꢺ (Saurashtra script)
• 𑆣𑆸 (Sharada script)
• 𑖠𑖴 (Siddham script)
• ධෘ (Sinhalese script)
• 𑩮𑩙 (Soyombo script)
• 𑚜 (Takri script)
• த்⁴ரி (Tamil script)
• ధృ (Telugu script)
• ธฺฤ (Thai script)
• དྷྲྀ (Tibetan script)
• 𑒡𑒵 (Tirhuta script)
• 𑨜𑨼𑨉 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *dʰar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰar-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /dʱr̩/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d̪ʱr̩/

Root

धृ • (dhṛ)

1. to hold

Usage notes

The (morphological) causative धारयति (dhāráyati) is in practice used as the main present verb.

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root धृ (0 c, 15 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root धृ (13 c, 0 e)

Primary Verbal Forms

• धरति (dhárati, Present)
• धरिष्यति (dhariṣyáti, Future)
• धर्ता (dhartā́, Periphrastic Future)
• अधार्षीत् (ádhārṣīt, Aorist)
• दधार (dadhā́ra, Perfect)

Secondary Forms

• ध्रियते (dhriyáte, Passive)
• अधारि (ádhāri, Passive Aorist)
• धारयति (dhāráyati, Causative)
• अदीधरत् (ádīdharat, Causative Aorist)
• धार्यते (dhāryáte, Passive of Causative)
• दिधीर्षति (didhīrṣati, Desiderative)
• दर्धर्ति (dárdharti, Intensive)

Non-Finite Forms

• धृत (dhṛtá, Past Participle)
• धर्तुम् (dhartum, Infinitive)
• धर्तवै (dhartavai, Infinitive)
• धर्तरि (dhartári, Infinitive)
• धृत्वा (dhṛtvā́, Gerund)
• धर्तव्य (dhartavya, Gerundive)
• धार्य (dhārya, Gerundive)
• धरणीय (dharaṇī́ya, Gerundive)
• धारित (dhārita, Causative Past Participle)
• धारयितव्य (dhārayitavya, Causative Gerundive)

Derived Nominal Forms

• धर (dhará)
• धरण (dháraṇa)
• धरणि (dharaṇi)
• धरित्री (dháritrī)
• धरिमन् (dhariman)
• धरीमन् (dhárīman)
• धरीयस् (dhárīyas)
• धरुण (dharúṇa)
• धर्णसि (dharṇasí)
• धर्णि (dharṇí)
• धर्तृ (dhartṛ́)
• धर्त्र (dhartrá)
• धर्म (dhárma)
• धर्मन् (dhárman)
• धर्मिन् (dharmín)
• धारक (dhā́raka)
• धारण (dhā́raṇa)
• धृत् (dhṛt)
• धृति (dhṛ́ti)
• धृत्वन् (dhṛtvan)

Prefixed Root Forms

• अभिधृ (abhidhṛ)
• अवधृ (avadhṛ)
• आधृ (ādhṛ)
• उद्धृ (uddhṛ)
• उपधृ (upadhṛ)
• निधृ (nidhṛ)
• परिधृ (paridhṛ)
• प्रधृ (pradhṛ)
• विधृ (vidhṛ)
• संधृ (saṃdhṛ)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “धृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 519, column 1.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 84
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “dhṛ”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “DHAR”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 778-9
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University