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Every entry for a word in Apte, Monier-Williams, Macdonell and the Dhātupāṭha, with their abbreviations spelled out, and an analysis of its forms.

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Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary

मृत्युmṛtyuDeath, decease; जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च Bg.2.27; मृत्योः स मृत्युमाप्नोति य इह नानेव…
[मृ त्युक्]
1. Death, decease; जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च Bg.2.27; मृत्योः स मृत्युमाप्नोति य इह नानेव पश्यति.
2. Yama, the god of death.
3. An epithet of Brahman.
4. Of Viṣṇu.
5. Of Māyā.
6. Of Kali.
7. The god of love.
8. The worldly life (संसार); (नमो) अनात्मने स्वात्मविभक्तमृत्यवे Bhāg.1.86.48.
9. Name of the 8th astrological house.
10. The deity taking away life in the body; यान्येतानि देवत्रा क्षत्राणीन्द्रो वरुणः सोमो रुद्रः पर्जन्यो यमो मृत्युरीशान इति Bri. Up.1.4.11; यमं कालं च मृत्युं च-स्वर्गं संपूज्य चार्हतः Mb.12.2.3.
11. Equivalent to अशनाया quod vide, which see; Bri. Up.1.2.1.
Derived forms and compounds
- -तूर्यम् a kind of drum beaten at obsequial rites.
- -द Adjective fatal.
- -द्वारम् the door leading to death.
- -नाशकः quicksilver.
- -नाशनम् the drink of immortality, ambrosia.
- -पाः an epithet of Śiva.
- -पाशः the noose of death or Yama.
- -पुष्पः
  
  the sugarcane.
  
  the bamboo.
- -प्रतिबद्ध Adjective liable to death.
- -फलम् a kind of poisonous fruit.
- -फला, -ली the plantain.
- -बीजः, -वीजः a bamboo-cane.
- -भृत्यः sickness, disease.
- -राज् Masculine Yama, the god of death.
- -लोकः
  
  the world of the dead, the world of Death or Yama.
  
  earth, the world of mortals; Compare मर्त्यलोक.
- -वञ्चनः
  
  an epithet of Śiva.
  
  a raven.
- -सूतिः Feminine a female crab; for explanation of this word read यथा कर्कटकी गर्भमाधत्ते मृत्यवे निजम् Purāṇam.
Source: Apte

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary

मृत्युmṛtyum. (very rarely f.) death, dying RV. &c., &c.
1. masculine gender (very rarely feminine) death, dying fg-veda etc., etc.
2. masculine gender (deaths of different kinds are enumerated, 100 from disease or accident and one natural from old age; in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' Equivalent to "d disease caused by or through")
3. masculine gender Death personified, the god of d disease (sometimes identified with Yama यम or with Vishn2u विष्णु; or said to be a son of Adharma अधर्म by Nirr2iti निरृति or of Brahma1 ब्रह्मा or of Kali कलि or of Ma1ya1 माया; he has also the patronymics Pra1dhvan6sana प्राध्वंसन and Sa1mpara1yan2a साम्परायण, and is sometimes reckoned among the 11 Rudras रुद्र s, and sometimes regarded as Vya1sa व्यास in the 6th Dva1para द्वापर or as a teacher etc.) S3Br. MBh. Pur. etc.
4. masculine gender Name of the god of love Lexicographers
5. masculine gender of a particular Eka7ha एका*ह S3a1n3khS3r.
6. masculine gender of the 8th astrology house VarBr2S.
7. masculine gender of the 17th astrology Yoga योग Col. (मृत्योर् हरह् and म्रित्योर् विकर्ण-भासे Name of Sa1mans सामन् s) .
8. etc. see page and participle 827, column 3 .
9. (in compound)
Source: Monier-Williams

Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary

मृत्युmṛtyu[mri-t-yú] m. death (pl. kinds of death); personified as god of death: --˚, death caused by, a. dying by.

[mri-t-yú] masculine death (plural kinds of death); personified as god of death: --˚, death caused by, adjective dying by.

Source: Macdonell

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