तृष्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ters- (dry). Cognates include Latin torrēns (scorching) whence English torrent, Latin terra and English thirst.

Pronunciation

Root

तृष् • (tṛṣ)

  1. to be thirsty, thirst for

Derived terms

References

  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “तृष्”, 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