# मृ
## Sanskrit
### Alternative forms

* मर् (mar)

### Alternative scripts

* মৃ (Assamese script)
* ᬫᬺ (Balinese script)
* মৃ (Bengali script)
* 𑰦𑰴 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀫𑀾 (Brahmi script)
* မၖ (Burmese script)
* મૃ (Gujarati script)
* ਮ੍ਰ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌮𑍃 (Grantha script)
* ꦩꦽ (Javanese script)
* 𑂧𑃂 (Kaithi script)
* ಮೃ (Kannada script)
* ម្ឫ (Khmer script)
* ມ຺ຣິ (Lao script)
* മൃ (Malayalam script)
* ᠮᡵᡳ (Manchu script)
* 𑘦𑘵 (Modi script)
* ᠮᠷᠢ (Mongolian script)
* 𑧆𑧖 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐩𑐺 (Newa script)
* ମୃ (Odia script)
* ꢪꢺ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆩𑆸 (Sharada script)
* 𑖦𑖴 (Siddham script)
* මෘ (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩴𑩙 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚢 (Takri script)
* ம்ரி (Tamil script)
* మృ (Telugu script)
* มฺฤ (Thai script)
* མྲྀ (Tibetan script)
* 𑒧𑒵 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨢𑨼𑨉 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *mar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mar-, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬭- (mar-), Persian مردن (mordan), Northern Kurdish mirin, مردن (mirdin), Old Armenian մեռանիմ (meṙanim), Old Church Slavonic мрѣти (mrěti), Lithuanian mirti, Latin morior.

### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /mr̩/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /mr̩/

### Root

मृ • (mṛ)
* to die

#### Usage notes

The passive verb म्रियते (mriyáte) functions as the main present verb.

#### Derived terms
##### Primary Verbal Forms

* मरति (márati, Present)
* मरिष्यति (mariṣyáti, Future)
* मर्ता (martā́, Periphrastic Future)
* अमृत (ámṛta, Aorist)
* मृषीष्ट (mṛṣīṣṭá, Benedictive)
* ममार (mamā́ra, Perfect)

##### Secondary Forms

* म्रियते (mriyáte, Passive)
* अमारि (ámāri, Passive Aorist)
* मारयति (māráyati, Causative)
* अमीमरत् (ámīmarat, Causative Aorist)
* मार्यते (māryate, Passive of Causative)
* मुमूर्षति (mumūrṣati, Desiderative)
* मरीमर्ति (marīmarti, Intensive)
* मेम्रीयते (memrīyate, Intensive)

##### Non-Finite Forms

* मृत (mṛtá, Past Participle)
* मर्तुम् (mártum, Infinitive)
* मर्तवे (martave, Infinitive)
* मृत्वा (mṛtvā́, Gerund)
* मर्तव्य (martavya, Gerundive)
* मिमारयिषु (mimārayiṣu, Desiderative Participle of Causative)

##### Derived Nominal Forms

* मार (mā́ra, “slaying, killing, destroying; pestilence”)
* मारण (mā́raṇa, “death, slaughter, killing; destruction; slayer”)
* मारुक (mā́ruka, “perishing, dying”)
* मर (mara, “dying, death; killing”)
* मरण (maraṇa, “death, dying”)
* मृत (mṛtá, “death”)
* मर्त (márta, “mortal, man”)
* मर्य (márya, “young man; suitor; mortal”)
* मर्मन् (márman, “mortal spot, vulnerability; core”)
* अमृत (amṛ́ta, “immortal, undying, ambrosia, nectar”)
* मृति (mṛti, “death, dying”)
* मम्रि (mamri, “mortal”)
* मर्त्य (mártya, “human, man, mortal being”)
* मर्त्यता (martyatā, “mortality”)
* मर्त्या (mártyā, “death, dying”)
* मार्त्य (mārtya, “mortality; corporeal part”)
* मुमूर्षा (mumūrṣā, “desire for death; impatience with life”)
* मुमूर्षु (mumūrṣu, “wishing to die; moribund, about to die”)
* मारक (māraka, “plague, epidemic; murderer; hawk”)
* मारि (māri, “pestilence, smallpox, killing”)
* मारी (mārī, “killing, slaughter”)
* मृतिमन् (mṛtiman, “mortality”)
* मृतक (mṛtaka, “dead man, corpse; death, decease”)
* मृत्यु (mṛtyú, “death, dying”)

##### Prefixed Root Forms

* अनुमृ (anumṛ)
* अभिमृ (abhimṛ)
* परिमृ (parimṛ)

#### References

* Monier Williams (1899) “मृ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 827, column 2.
* William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 124
* Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 318-9