अन्ध

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *andʰás (“blind, dark”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬀𐬧𐬛𐬀‎ (aṇda, “blind”). The Sanskrit root is अन्ध् (andh).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐn̪.d̪ʱɐ́/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɐn̪.d̪ʱɐ/

अन्ध • (andhá)

1. blind
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.148.4:

     न यं रिपवो न रिषण्यवो गर्भे सन्तं रेषणा रेषयन्ति ।
     अन्धा अपश्या न दभन्नभिख्या नित्यास ईं प्रेतारो अरक्षन् ॥

     na yaṃ ripavo na riṣaṇyavo garbhe santaṃ reṣaṇā reṣayanti .
     andhā apaśyā na dabhannabhikhyā nityāsa īṃ pretāro arakṣan .

     Him, whom while yet in embryo the hostile, both skilled and fain to harm, may never injure,
     Men blind and sightless through his splendour hurt not: his never-failing lovers have preserved him.

2. dark

अन्ध • (andhá) n or m

1. n night, darkness
2. m the name of a people

• Balinese: ᬅᬦ᭄ᬥ (anda)
• Bengali: অন্ধ (ôndh)
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀅𑀁𑀥 (aṃdha)
  • Hindi: अंधा (andhā)
• Torwali: ان‎ (an, “blind”)
• Thai: อันธ (an-tha, “blind, darkness”)}

• Monier Williams (1899), “अन्ध”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 44.