वर्ण
Hindi
noun
Definitions
- color
- race ethnic group, often categorized by skin colour
- caste, class
- letter
- (phonetics) a phone
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit वर्ण (color, hue, class, caste) derived from Proto-Indo-Aryan *wárṇas root from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (turn, wind, see, roll, twist, round, turn around, press together, death in battle, killed in battle, wool, grass, bend, best, good, revolve, hair, ear, forest).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wel-
Gloss
turn, wind, see, roll, twist, round, turn around, press together, death in battle, killed in battle, wool, grass, bend, best, good, revolve, hair, ear, forest
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
森
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- involvere Latin
- lorum Latin
- vallis Latin
- vallum Latin
- volūtus Latin
- vultus Latin
- εἰλεός Ancient Greek
- εὔληρα Ancient Greek
- οὐλαμός Ancient Greek
- *wel- Proto-Indo-European
- *welh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *welh₁-, *wel- Proto-Indo-European
- *walt- Proto-Germanic
- *waltaz Proto-Germanic
- *waltijaną Proto-Germanic
- *waluz Proto-Germanic
- *walô Proto-Germanic
- *welk- Proto-Germanic
- *welukaz Proto-Germanic
- *wilþijaz Proto-Germanic
- *wlaitōną Proto-Germanic
- *wlitiz Proto-Germanic
- *wulþuz Proto-Germanic
- वर्ण Sanskrit
- वर्णमाला Sanskrit
- सुवर्ण Sanskrit
- अंधा Hindi
- एक Hindi
- एकवर्णीय Hindi
- माला Hindi
- वर्णमाला Hindi
- वर्णहीन Hindi
- वर्णांध Hindi
- सवर्ण Hindi
- सोना Hindi
- วรรณ Thai
- วรรณะ Thai
- գեղ Old Armenian
- fil Old Irish
- fál Old Irish
- warna Malay
- *wali- Proto-Celtic
- *wel-n- Proto-Celtic
- *weleti Proto-Celtic
- vaṇṇa Pali
- વર્ણ Gujarati
- વાન Gujarati
- *wal- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- ពណ៌ Central Khmer
- *walhlaup Frankish
- *wárnas Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *wárṇas Proto-Indo-Aryan
- বরন Bengali
- 𑀯𑀡𑁆𑀡 Sauraseni Prakrit
- 𑀯𑀡𑁆𑀡 Maharastri Prakrit
- *ambi-wēla Proto-Albanian
- *wala Proto-Albanian
- *walwā Proto-Albanian
- Βερενίκη gkm
- ವರ್ಣ Kannada