भर्तृ

Sanskrit

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /bʱɐ́ɽ.t̪r̩/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbʱɐɽ.t̪r̩/

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /bʱɐɽ.t̪ŕ̩/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbʱɐɽ.t̪r̩/

Etymology 1

Noun

भर्तृ • (bhártṛ) m

husband
- c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 5.58.7
  प्रथिष्ट यामन्पृथिवी चिदेषां भर्तेव गर्भं स्वमिच्छवो धुः ।
  वातान्ह्यश्वान्धुर्यायुयुज्रे वर्षं स्वेदं चक्रिरे रुद्रियासः ॥
  prathiṣṭa yāmanpṛthivī cideṣāṃ bharteva garbhaṃ svamicchavo dhuḥ .
  vātānhyaśvāndhuryāyuyujre varṣaṃ svedaṃ cakrire rudriyāsaḥ .
  Even Earth hath spread herself wide at their coming, and they as husbands have with power impregned her.
  They to the pole have yoked the winds for coursers: their sweat have they made rain, these Sons of Rudra.
- c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti
- c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Compare Latin fertor.

Noun

भर्तृ • (bhartṛ́) m

bearer
- c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
preserver, nourisher, master
- c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda

References

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 748

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