अन्तर्

See also: अन्तर

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hantár, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hantár (between), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér (between). Cognate with Latin inter (between, under), Oscan 𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄𐌓 (anter, between), Old Irish eter (between), Old High German untar (between).

Pronunciation

Preposition

अन्तर् • (antár)

  1. within, between, amongst, in the middle or interior
    • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 8.29.2:
      योनि॒मेक॒ आ स॑साद॒ द्योत॑नो॒ऽन्तर्दे॒वेषु॒ मेधि॑रः ॥
      yóniméka ā́ sasāda dyótanoʼntárdevéṣu médhiraḥ.
      One (Agni) intelligent, resplended among the gods, is seated in his place (the altar).
  2. in the middle, in, between, into [with locative]
  3. between [with accusative]
  4. in, in the middle [with genitive]
  5. (at the end of a compound) in, into, in the middle of, between, out of the midst of

Usage notes

Is sometimes compounded with a following word like an adjective, meaning "interior", "internal", "intermediate".

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “अन्तर्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 43, column 2.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “antár”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 76