हु
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- হু (Assamese script)
- ᬳᬸ (Balinese script)
- হু (Bengali script)
- 𑰮𑰲 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀳𑀼 (Brahmi script)
- ဟု (Burmese script)
- હુ (Gujarati script)
- ਹੁ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌹𑍁 (Grantha script)
- ꦲꦸ (Javanese script)
- 𑂯𑂳 (Kaithi script)
- ಹು (Kannada script)
- ហុ (Khmer script)
- ຫຸ (Lao script)
- ഹു (Malayalam script)
- ᡥᡠ (Manchu script)
- 𑘮𑘳 (Modi script)
- ᠾᠤ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧎𑧔 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐴𑐸 (Newa script)
- ହୁ (Odia script)
- ꢲꢸ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆲𑆶 (Sharada script)
- 𑖮𑖲 (Siddham script)
- හු (Sinhalese script)
- 𑪂𑩒 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚩𑚰 (Takri script)
- ஹு (Tamil script)
- హు (Telugu script)
- หุ (Thai script)
- ཧུ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒯𑒳 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨱𑨃 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *źʰaw-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰaw-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to pour”).
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /ɦu/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /ɦu/
Root
हु • (hu)
Derived terms
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root हु (0 c, 8 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root हु (4 c, 0 e)
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Secondary Forms
- हूयते (hūyáte) (Passive)
- अहावि (áhāvi) (Passive Aorist)
- हावयति (hāvayati) (Causative)
- अजूहवत् (ajūhavat) (Causative Aorist)
- जुहूषति (juhūṣati) (Desiderative)
- जोहवीति (johavīti) (Intensive)
- जोहूयते (johūyate) (Intensive)
- Non-Finite Forms
- Derived Nominal Forms
- Prefixed Root Forms
- अभिहु (abhihu)
- आहु (āhu)
- उपहु (upahu)
- प्रतिहु (pratihu)
- प्रहु (prahu)
- संहु (saṃhu)
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “हु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1300, column 3.
- William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 206
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “hu”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “HAV”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 808-9
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*g̑ʰeu̯-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 179