रु

रु (ru)

1. Irregular ligature of र and ु

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-b/m-ruːl.

रु (ru)

1. snake

• Chepang Dictionary by R.C. Caughley, sil.org

• IPA^(key): [ɾu]

रु • (ru)

1. An irregular ligature of र (ra) and ु (u)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewH- (“to shout, roar”). Cognate with Latin rūmor (“noise”), raucus.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɾu/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɾu/

रु • (ru)

1. to roar, bellow, yelp, cry aloud
2. to make any noise or sound
3. to praise

Primary Verbal Forms

Secondary Forms

Non-Finite Forms

Derived Nominal Forms

• रा (rā)
• रास् (rās)

• Monier Williams (1899) “रु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0881.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “रु”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 141

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

• Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 363
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0867”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0867