Indo-Aryan márdati [9890]

pounds, crushes, treads on, squeezes, rubs

MBh

[mr̥dnā́ti (= márdati) MBh., and marmartu RV. (if < °rttu). — In some NIA. lggs. márdati and mr̥ndati have coalesced so that it is not possible in all cases to distinguish from which the modern word stems; e.g. Or. māṛibā may be either < mard- or < mr̥nd- (with mā̃- written as mā-); Si. man̆ḍ-, maḍ- may be either < mr̥nd- or < mard- with nasality from initial m-. Inter-dialectal spread of forms accounts for further confusions: e.g. Paš. muṇḍ- ~ maṇḍ- are both prob. < mr̥ndati. Semantically there is also overlap with mánthati. — √mr̥d]

crushes, treads on, kneads, jumbles, destroys

crushes, tramples on

to knead, mix

(why long ā?)

to thresh

to rub, tread out

'to thresh, tread out (grain), mix by grinding'

to pound, thresh

to press

(Bāleshwar)

to knead, shampoo

to mix

to mix

to rub, thresh, flatten

(mā̃ḍhnā 'id.' X mánthati?)

spread out

to rub, polish, grind

to rub, polish, grind

to rub

to break

tr; (IIFL iii 3, 123 < múṇṭati)

to thresh, smear

to thresh, smear

to rub, smear

to thresh

to thresh

to soften

to knead

to crush

to rub

'I crush, thresh, grind, wash (clothes)'

'to rub, trample, wash (woollen cloth by kneading it with the feet)'

to shampoo, make clothes ready for steaming

to rub

to beat, rub

to knead, grind, shampoo

to rub with the hands, clean

to smear vessels

to rub, press, clean rice from the husk

(inscr.)

to crush

absol

to prepare a field for planting by buffaloes treading it

(pret. maṇḍā < *man̆ḍvā)

pp

to crush

: cf

pp

'to stir up, mix, knead (mortar), rumple, tumble (clothes, paper, &c.), spoil by treading on (crops)'

also 'to knead (dough)' AFD 331

massages, mixes

to rub, pinch

to rub, smear, thrash, crush

(Him.I 172 if not < márdati with rd > ṇḍ)

to rub oneself

breaking

to knead