कद्रु

{ kadru }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

कद्रु  mfn.  mfn. ( etym. doubtful; fr. √ कव् Comm. on [Uṇ. iv, 102]) tawny, brown, reddish-brown, [TS.]; KātyŚr. &c.
कद्रु  m.  m. tawny (the colour), [W.]
कद्रु  f.  f ( उस्, ऊस्). a brown सोम-vessel, [RV. viii, 45, 26]
N. of a daughter of दक्ष (wife of कश्यप and mother of the नागs), [MBh.]; [BhP.] &c.
 f.  f. A daughter of दक्ष (read कद्रू)
कद्रु  f.  f. ( ऊ॑स्) a particular divine personification (described in certain legends which relate to the bringing down of the सोम from heaven ; according to the ब्राह्मणs, ‘the earth personified’), [TS. vi]; [ŚBr. iii, vi]; [Kāṭh. &c.]
N. of a plant (?).

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

कद्रु [kadru] a.  a. [कद्-रु] (-द्रु or
-द्रू  f. f.)
Tawny.
Variegated, spotted.
द्रुः The tawny colour.
The variegated colour.
-द्रुः, -द्रूः  f. f. Wife of Kaśyapa and the mother of the Nāgas. -Comp.
-पुत्रः, -सुतः   a serpent.

Shabda-Sagara

कद्रु  mfn.  ( -द्रुः-द्रुः-द्रूः-द्रु) Tawny.
 f.  ( -द्रूः) The wife of CASYAPA the saint, and mother of the Nāgas or the serpent race, inhabiting the regions below the earth.
 m.  ( -द्रुः) Tawny, (the colour.)
E. कम् to desire, डु affix, and र inserted; the final of the radical is irregularly changed to द; fem. affix ऊञ्.

ROOTS:

कम् डु र द; ऊञ्