बुध्

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *bʰawdʰ-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰawdʰ-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to wake, rise up”).

Root

बुध् • (√budh)

1. to wake, wake up, be awake.
2. to recover consciousness (after a swoon)
3. to observe, heed, attend to (with acc. or gen.).
4. to perceive, notice, learn, understand, become or be aware of or acquainted with.
5. to think of i.e. present a person (‘with’ instr.).
6. to know to be, recognize as (with two acc.).
7. to deem, consider or regard as (with two acc.)
8. to revive the scent (of a perfume).
9. to cause (a flower) to expand.
10. to cause to observe or attend, admonish, advise.
11. to make a person acquainted with, remind or inform of. impart or communicate anything to (with two acc.)

Further reading

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 733
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 106