వీరుడు

Telugu

Alternative forms

వీరుఁడు (vīruṅḍu)

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वीर (vīrá, “man; hero”) + -డు (-ḍu), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wīrás, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós. Cognates include Latin vir, Lithuanian výras, Old Irish fer, Old Norse verr, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂 (wair), Ossetian ир (ir, “Ossetians”) and Old English wer (English were-).

Noun

వీరుడు • (vīruḍu) m (plural వీరులు)

A hero, warrior, champion.

References

Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 1201

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