Hindi

Noun

रथ • ‎(rath) m

1. a chariot

   रथ यात्रा‎ ― rath yātrā ― Rath Yatra

Pali

Noun

रथ m

1. Devanagari script form of ratha

Sanskrit

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *HrátHas, from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- ‎(“to roll”). Cognates include Latin rota, Old Irish roth, Old High German rad and Lithuanian ratas.

Noun

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
2. warrior, hero, champion
3. the body
4. limb, member, part
5. Calamus rotang, a rattan palm.
6. Dalbergia ougeinensis, blackwood
7. = पौरुष ‎(pauruṣa)

Declension

Descendants

• Khmer រថ ‎(rôth)
• Lao: ລົດ ‎(lot), ຣົຖ ‎(rot)
• Telugu: రథము ‎(rathamu)
• Thai รถ ‎(rōht)

Derived terms

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

रथ • ‎(ratha) m

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

Declension

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0865