रन्ध्र

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *londʰrom, from *lendʰ (“loins”). Cognate with Latin lumbus and Old English lenden.

Noun

रन्ध्र • (randhra) n

a slit, split, opening, aperture, hole, chasm, fissure, cavity
the vulva
a defect, fault, flaw, imperfection

Derived terms

रन्ध्रान्वेषण (randhrānveṣaṇa)
ब्रह्मरन्ध्र (brahmarandhra, “an aperture in the crown of the head”)

Descendants

→ Hindi: रंध्र (randhra)
Pali: randha
→ Telugu: రంధ్రము (randhramu)

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 0866

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