अमाजुर् (amAjur)

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Capeller Eng

English

 अमाजु॑र् f.
  old maid,  spinster (lit.   growing old at home).

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 अमा—जुर् ऊ॑र्,  f.
  living at home,  growing old at home (as a maiden),  RV.
   ii,  17,  7
 viii,  21,  15 and x,  39,  3.

Macdonell

English

 अमाजुर् amā-júr,  f.
  aging at home,  old 🞄maid.

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Vedic Reference

English

 Amā-jur is an epithet^1 denoting maidens ‘who grow old at
home’ without finding husbands,  or,  as they are elsewhere
called,  ‘who sit with their father’ (pitṛ-ṣad). A well-known
example of such was Ghoṣā.^2
1) Rv. ii. 17,  7
 viii. 21,  15
x. 37,  3.
2) Rv. i. 117,  7. Cf. Zimmer,  Altin-
disches Leben,  305.

Capeller

German

 अमाजु॑र् f.
  daheim alternd,  alte Jungfer.

Grassman

German

 amā-júr,  a.,  daheim alternd,  unvermählt im Vaterhause bleibend.
-ū́r [N. f.] {208, 7}.
-úras [G.] {865, 3} (bhágas).
-úras [N. p.] {641, 15}.

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