रमते

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrámatay, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rém-e-ti, from *h₁rem- (“to rest”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἔρᾰμαι (éramai), Lithuanian rìmti.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɾɐ́.mɐ.tɐj/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɾɐ.mɐ.t̪eː/

रमते • (rámate) third-singular present indicative (root रम्, class 1, type A)

1. to delight, enjoy, be glad, please
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.145.4:

     नह्यस्या नाम गृभ्णामि नो अस्मिन्रमते जने । परामेव परावतं सपत्नीं गमयामसि ॥

     nahyasyā nāma gṛbhṇāmi no asminramate jane. parāmeva parāvataṃ sapatnīṃ gamayāmasi.

     I mention not her name [for] she takes no pleasure in this man. Far into distance most remote we drive the rival wife away.

   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
2. to stop, stay; rest
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 2.38.2:

     विश्वस्य हि श्रुष्टये देव ऊर्ध्वः प्र बाहवा पृथुपाणिः सिसर्ति । आपश्चिदस्य व्रत आ निमृग्रा अयं चिद्वातो रमते परिज्मन् ॥

     viśvasya hi śruṣṭaye deva ūrdhvaḥ pra bāhavā pṛthupāṇiḥ sisarti. āpaścidasya vrata ā nimṛgrā ayaṃ cidvāto ramate parijman.

     Having gone up on high, the God broadhanded spreads his arms widely forth that all may mark him. Even the waters bend them to his service; even this wind rests in the circling region.

   • c. 200 BCE – 200 CE, Manusmṛti 3.56:

     यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते रमन्ते तत्र देवताः । यत्रैतास्तु न पूज्यन्ते सर्वास्तत्राफलाः क्रियाः ॥

     yatra nāryastu pūjyante ramante tatra devatāḥ. yatraitāstu na pūjyante sarvāstatrāphalāḥ kriyāḥ.

     Where women are honoured and worshipped, there stay the divinities. On the other hand, where they are not honoured, every action in unfruitful.

3. to have sexual intercourse
4. to play with, put to stake (with instrumental)

• Pali: ramati
• Prakrit: 𑀭𑀫𑀇 (ramaï)
  • Old Gujarati: रमइ (ramaï)
    • Gujarati: રમવું (ramvũ)
  • Hindustani: ramnā

    Hindi: रमना

    Urdu: رَمنا

  • Marathi: रमणे (ramṇe)
  • Punjabi: ਰਮਣਾ (ramṇā)

• Monier Williams (1899) “रमते”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 867.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “ram”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “rámatē”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 615
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