रथ

Borrowed from Sanskrit रथ (rátha), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrátʰas, from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”).

रथ • (rath) m

1. a chariot

   रथ यात्रा ― rath yātrā ― Rath Yatra

Borrowed from Sanskrit रथ (ratha)

रथ (transliteration needed) m

1. chariot
   • 1422, unknown, कालिकसूरिकथा :

     पुंतार पुंतारि स्यउं असवार असवारि स्यउं रथ रथि स्यउं पायक पायकि स्यउं युद्ध नीपजावइ।

     puṃtāra puṃtāri syauṃ asavāra asavāri syauṃ ratha rathi syauṃ pāyaka pāyaki syauṃ yuddha nīpajāvai.

     Mahout with mahout, rider with rider, chariot with chariot, foot soldier with foot soldier, there was war.

रथ m

1. Devanagari script form of ratha

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hrátʰas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrátʰas (“chariot, car”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrót-h₂-os, from *Hret- (“to roll”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬚𐬀‎ (raθa, “chariot, car”), Latin rota, Old Irish roth, Old High German rad, Lithuanian ratas.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɽɐ́.t̪ʰɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɽɐ.t̪ʰɐ/

रथ • (rátha) m

1. chariot, car, especially a two-wheeled war-chariot (lighter and swifter than the अनस् (anas)), any vehicle or equipage or carriage (applied also to the vehicles of the gods), waggon, cart
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 8.20.12:

     स्थिरा धन्वान्यायुधा रथेषु वोऽनीकेष्वधि श्रियः ॥

     sthirā dhanvānyāyudhā ratheṣu vo’nīkeṣvadhi śriyaḥ .

     Strong are your bows and strong the weapons in your cars, and glory sits on every face.

2. warrior, hero, champion

• Burmese: ရထား (ra.hta:)
• Kannada: ರಥ (ratha)
• Khmer: រថ (rŭət)
• Lao: ລົດ (lot), ຣົຖ (rot)
• Telugu: రథము (rathamu)
• Thai: รถ (rót)

• दशरथ (daśaratha)
• रथसप्तमी (rathasaptamī)
• रथोत्सव (rathotsava)

From verbal root रमते (√ram, “to delight, be glad, rejoice etc.”).

रथ • (ratha) m

1. pleasure, joy, delight (compare मनोरथ (mano-ratha))
2. affection, love

• Monier Williams (1899), “रथ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0865.