As a Hindi name
डमरु · noun · masculine
एक बाजा जिसका आकार बीच में पतला और दोनों सिरों की और बारबार चौड़ा होता जाता है · डमरू के आकार की कोई वस्तु । ऐसी वस्तु जो बीच में पतली हो और दोनों और बारबर चौड़ी (उलटी गावदुम) होती गई हो · एक प्रकार का दंडक वृत्त जिसके प्रत्येक चरण में ३२ लघु वर्ण होते हैं । जैसे,—रहत रजत नग नगर न गज तट गज खल कलगर गरल तरल धर । भिखारीदास ने इसी का नाम जलहरण लिखा है — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ डमरू
डमरु · ḍamaru · s.m.
A tabor or small drum shaped like an hour-glass (held in one hand and beaten with the fingers: it is one of the ten attributes of Śiva); anything shaped like an hour-glass; the knee-joint(?) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 566
डमरू · masculine
a small drum in the shape of an hourglass
डमरु · masculine
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit डमरुक — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit डमरुक (ḍamaruka), from डमरु (ḍamaru) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
ḍamaruka mf(ā)n. (n., L.) = ˚rin, Vātsyāy. &c.
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
id., [a sacred drum, shaped like an hourglass, used by the god Śiva and by Buddhist mendicant monks for a musical accompaniment in chanting, (cf. )]
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Dictionary citations
ḍamaru (m., L.) id., Rājat. ii, 99; Prab. iii, 14 [a sacred drum, shaped like an hourglass, used by the god Śiva and by Buddhist mendicant monks for a musical accompaniment in chanting, (cf. MWB. 384, 385)]
surprise, L.
ḍamaru m. (-ruḥ) 1 A musical instrument, a sort of small drum, shaped like an hour glass, and held in one hand. 2 Any thing surprising, any strange occurrence, &c. E. ḍam imitative sound, ṛ to go or get, ku affix, and the vowel changed.
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