वन्धुर

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *wandʰúras, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wandʰúras, from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (to turn, wind). Cognate with Armenian վանդակ (vandak), English wander.

Pronunciation

Noun

वन्धुर • (vandhúra) stem, n

  1. the seat of a charioteer, the fore part of a chariot or place at the end of the shafts, a carriage-seat or driver's box

Declension

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References

  • Monier Williams (1899), वन्धुर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 919/2.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 503
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