The corpus record — Sanskrit

daridra

Adj

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Where it lives

Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. دَرِدرَ-

daridra- Adj. unstet, umherschweifend (TS; SB däridra-, s.u ), jünger: arm, bettelhaft, m. Bettler (Mn +). - Mi., ni., pä dalidda- arm, däridda- n. Armut, u.a. (Tu 6195, 6297, TuAdd 6195[abl, 6297). - Vom Intens. TS + dari-dra- "hin und her laufen; sich in Not befinden, arm sein‘, zu DRA' Die Betonung im SB Verallgemeinerung des Vokativ-Aksents (VS VokSg daridra), AiGr 11 2,84 (anders 11 2,100)” DARP von Sinnen … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. daridra-, p. 756]

2. دَرِدرَ

daridra mf(ā)n. (√ drā, Intens. Pāṇ. vi, 4, 114 , Vārtt. 2) roving, strolling, TS. iii, 1, 1, 2 (ridra), VS. xvi, 47 ; ŚBr. i, 6, 1, 18 ; TāṇḍyaBr.

3. دَرِدرَ

poor, needy, deprived of ( instr. Kathās. lxxiii ; in comp. , lxiv ; Bhartṛ. iv, 11 ), m. a beggar, Mn. ix, 230 ; R. &c. ( ifc. f(ā). , Kathās. xc, 26 )

4. dāridra

dāridra n. probably w.r. for

In the wild

daridra Brhadaranyaka Upanisad brhup_4,2.2

Where it came from

Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. daridra (vol. 1, scan p. 756; entry #7214).

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