वृत्

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

  • वर्त् (vart)

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

Root

वृत् • (vṛt)

  1. to turn, to rotate

Derived terms

  • अनुवर्तते (anuvártate, “follow, pursue, resemble, obey, assent, respect”)
  • चक्रवर्तिन् (cakravartin, “whose wheels roll everywhere unobstructed; emperor, sovereign of the world”)
  • त्रिवर्तु (trivártu, “threefold”)
  • परिवर्तते (parivártate, “revolve, alternate”)
  • परिवर्तन (parivartana, “change, exchange, conversion, barter”)
  • परिवर्तयति (parivartayati, “to invert”)
  • परिवर्तित (parivartita, “converted, exchanged, removed, revolved”)
  • परिवृत् (√parivṛt, “turn around, revolve, convert, change”)
  • प्रवर्तते (pravártate, “to assume (an office), embrace (a duty), to be promoted”)
  • वर्तते (vártate, “to turn, roll, be, exist”)
  • वर्तन (vártana, “turn, turning, rotation, spindle, globe”)
  • वर्तनि (vartaní, “circumference or felly of a wheel; track of a wheel; path”)
  • वर्तनी (vartanī, “path, way, road; life; spindle”)
  • वर्तयति (vartáyati)
  • वर्ति (varti)
  • वर्तित (vartita, “turned, rolled about”)
  • वर्तिन् (vartin)
  • वर्तिस् (vartís, “circuit, orbit, abode, lodging”)
  • वर्ती (vartī, “wrap, bandage, wick, streak, object rolled round”)
  • वर्तुल (vartula, “circle, ball, globe”)
  • वर्त्ति (vártti)
  • वर्त्मन् (vártman, “wheel rut; path, course, way”)
  • ववर्त (vavárta)
  • वावृत्त (vāvṛtta, “chosen, appointed”)
  • वृत्त (vṛttá)
  • वृत्ति (vṛtti, “rolling, way of life, state, existing, being in, business, wages, livelihood”)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “वृत्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1009/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 164
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 518-519
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