रञ्ज्
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“to dye”).
Cognate with Proto-Iranian *ra(n)ǰ- (“to colour, dye”) whence Persian رخش (rakhsh, “red”), Chorasmian rxtk (raxtak, “red”), Mazanderani رش (raš, “red (of cattle)”), Kurdish reş (“black”) and Sogdian [script needed] (rɣš- /raxš/, “Rakhsh”).
Root
रञ्ज् • (rañj)
- to redden
- to dye or color
Derived terms
- रजते (rajate)
- रक्त (rakta, “blood”)
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 861/2
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