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Where does “मर्यादा” come from?

मर्यादा (Sanskrit) comes from Persian مرز, from Middle Persian mlc, from Proto-Indo-European merǵ- — edge, boundary, border; boundary, border;...

मर्यादा (Sanskrit): shore; limit, restriction; range

Definitions

  1. shore; limit, restriction; range

Ancestry of “मर्यादा”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianمرزboundary, border, frontier
2Middle Persianmlcboundary, march; term; boundary, march
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmerǵ-edge, boundary, border; boundary, border;...

Words derived from “मर्यादा”

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