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    According to Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, the Sanskrit word rṓhita1 means “red and reddish.” He also provides its cognates in other East Indo-European languages:

Prakrit rōhia-; Panjābī rohu, rehū; Nepāli rewā; Assamese rau; Bengali rui; Oṛiyā rohi, roi, rui; Maithilī rohu; Bhojpurī rōhū; Hindī rohu, rehū; Marāṭhī rohī.

All these cognates and the following words related to rṓhita1 originate from Tamil ar.

rōhi-, a kind of deer. *rōhiṇa, red. rṓhiṇī, red cow, cow, the 9th constellation. rōhít, red. rōhita-², a kind of deer. rōhitamatsya, the fish Cyprinus rohitaka. *rōhitya, a kind of deer. *rōhiya-, a kind of deer. rōhiṣa, a kind of fish. *rōhya, *rōhiya-, a kind of deer.

 

English words derived from Tamil ar connoting ‘red’