प्रातर्

From Proto-Indo-European *proh₁-tér, from *proh₁- (“early; morning”), from *pro-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πρωΐ (prōḯ, “early in the day”), Proto-West Germanic *frō (“early”) (whence German Frühe (“morning”)). Also distantly related to Old Armenian երախայրիք (eraxayrikʻ).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɾɑː.tɐ́ɾ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /pɾɑː.t̪ɐɾ/

प्रा॒तर् • (prātár)

1. early in the morning, at daybreak, at dawn
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 7.41.1:

     प्रा॒तर् अ॒ग्निं प्रा॒तर् इन्द्रं॑ हवामहे प्रा॒तर् मि॒त्रावरु॑णा प्रा॒तर् अ॒श्विना॑ ।
     प्रा॒तर् भगं॑ पू॒षणं॒ ब्रह्म॑ण॒स्पतिं॑ प्रा॒तः सोम॑म् उ॒त रु॒द्रं हु॑वेम ॥

     prātár agníṃ prātár índraṃ havāmahe prātár mitrā́váruṇā prātár aśvínā.
     prātár bhágaṃ pūṣáṇaṃ bráhmaṇaspátiṃ prātáḥ sómam utá rudráṃ huvema.

     Agni at dawn, and Indra we invoke at dawn, and Varuṇa and Mitra, and the Aśvins twain.
     Bhaga at dawn, Pūṣan, and Brahmaṇaspati, Soma at dawn, Rudra we will invoke at dawn.

   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda
2. next morning, tomorrow

• प्रातःकाल (prātaḥkāla)

• Niya Prakrit: 𐨤𐨿𐨪𐨟 (prata)
• Pali: pātar (“early in the morning”)
• Sylheti: ꠙꠔꠣ (fota, “dawn”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “प्रातर्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 706/2.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 188