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नृतू (nRtU)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
नृतू
m.
 (-तूः)
1. A dancer, a mime, an actor.
2. Earth.
3. A worm.
4.
Length.
E.
 नृत् to dance, and कू
aff.
Capeller Eng
English
नृतू॑
s.
 dancer.
Yates
English
नृतू (तूः) 3.
m.
 A dancer
a worm
the earth
length.
Wilson
English
नृतू
m.
 (-तूः)
1 A dancer, a mime, an actor.
2 Earth.
3 A worm.
4 Length.
E.
 नृत to dance, and कू
aff.
Apte
English
नृतू [nṛtū],
a.
 Destroying or injuring men.
Apte 1890
English
नृतू a. Ved. 1 Dancing.
2 Desstroying or injuring men.
Macdonell
English
नृतू nṛt-ū́,
m.
 dancer, actor.
Benfey
English
नृतू नृत् + ऊ,
m.
 A dancer, a mime,
Chr. 294, 4 = Rigv. i. 92, 4.
Vedic Reference
English
Nṛtū occurs once in the Rigveda^1 denoting a female ‘dancer.’
In another passage^2 Nṛti is found coupled with hāsa, ‘laughter, ’
in the description of the funeral ritual
but though it is clear
that a joyful celebration is meant (like the Irish ‘wake’ or the
old-fashioned feasting in Scotland after a funeral), it is difficult
to be certain that actual dancing is here meant. Dancing is,
however, often referred to in the Rigveda^3 and later. Nṛtta-
gīta, ‘dance and song, ’ are mentioned in the Jaiminīya
Brāhmaṇa^4 as found in the sixth world. See also Śailūṣa.
1) i. 92, 4 (where Uṣas, Goddess of Dawn, is compared to a dancer).
2) x. 18, 3. Cf. 29, 2.
3) i. 10, 1
92, 4, etc. See Weber,
Indian Literature, 196 et seq.
4) i. 42 (Journal of the American Oriental
Society, 15, 235).
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
नृतू
त्रि०
 भृत--कू । १ नर्त्तके । नॄन् तूर्वति हिनस्ति तूर्ष--क्विप् । २ नरहिंसके च “नृतूरिवापोर्णुते” ऋ० १ । ९२ । ४
Grassman
German
nṛtū́, f., Tänzerin [nṛt 1.].
-ū́s [N. s.] {92, 4} ádhi péśāṃsi vapate 〰 iva (uṣā́s).