शरद्

• शरत् (śarat)

Borrowed from Sanskrit शरद् (śarád), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćarHáts. Doublet of साल (sāl), a borrowing from Persian.

शरद् • (śarad) f (Urdu spelling شرد)

1. autumn, fall (specifically, the two months succeeding the summer monsoons)

   आनेवाला शरद् ऋतु बहुत ठंडा होगा।

   ānevālā śarad ŕtu bahut ṭhaṇḍā hogā.

   The coming autumn season will be very cold.

• पतझड़ (patjhaṛ)

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “शरद्”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “शरद्”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

• शरद (śarada), शरदा (śaradā)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćarHád- (“autumn, year”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁- (“to warm up, be hot”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀 (sar^əδa, “year”), Old Persian 𐎰𐎼𐎭 (θ-r-d /⁠θrda⁠/, “year”) (whence Persian سال (sâl, “year”)), as well as perhaps Latin caleō (“to be warm”) and Latvian silts (“warm”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɐ.ɾɐ́d/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɕɐ.ɾɐd̪/

शरद् • (śarád) stem, f

1. autumn, autumnal season comprising the two months अश्विन् (aśvin) and कार्त्तिक (kārttika)
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.161.4:

     शतं जीव शरदो वर्धमानः शतं हेमन्ताञ्छतमु वसन्तान्।

     śataṃ jīva śarado vardhamānaḥ śataṃ hemantāñchatamu vasantān.

     Live, waxing in thy strength, a hundred autumns, live through a hundred springs, a hundred winters.

2. a year
   • c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.24.7:

     अयं द्योतयदद्युतो व्यक्तून्दोषा वस्तोः शरद इन्दुरिन्द्र ।
     इमं केतुमदधुर्नू चिदह्नां शुचिजन्मन उषसश्चकार ॥

     ayaṃ dyotayadadyuto vyaktūndoṣā vastoḥ śarada indurindra.
     imaṃ ketumadadhurnū cidahnāṃ śucijanmana uṣasaścakāra.

     This Indu lighted darksome nights, O Indra, throughout the years, at morning and at evening.
     Him have they stablished as the days' bright ensign. He made the Mornings to be born in splendour.

• Assamese: শৰৎ (xorot)
• Bengali: শরৎ (śorot)
• Pali: sarada
  • Khmer: សរទៈ (saʼraʼtĕəʼ)
• Dardic:
  • Kalasha: šáru
  • Kashmiri: ہَرُد (harud)
  • Khowar: شورو (šoró)
• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀲𑀭𑀬 (saraya)
• Pali: sarada
• → Hindi: शरद् (śarad), शरत् (śarat) (literary borrowing)
• → Telugu: శరత్తు (śarattu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “शरद्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1057.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 616
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 304