भेड्र

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Related to मेण्ढ़ (meṇḍha, ram); see मेण्ढ्र (meṇḍhra, ram; penis) for more. Possibly also cognate to Bengali বাঁড়া "(vulgar) penis; ram"

Pronunciation

Noun

भेड्र • (bheḍra) stem, ?

  1. sheep, ram

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), भेड्र”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0766, column 1.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume III, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 373
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