छन्द्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sḱend-.

Pronunciation

Root

छन्द् • (chand)

  1. to seem, appear, be considered as
  2. to seem good, please
  3. to gratify

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “छन्द्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0404.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “छन्द्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 050
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “छन्द्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
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