दक्ष्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *deḱs- (right side, dexter).

Cognates include Ancient Greek δεξῐός (dexiós, right(hand), fortunate, able), Old Church Slavonic деснъ (desnŭ, right(side)).

Pronunciation

Root

दक्ष् • (dakṣ)

  1. to be able or strong
  2. to grow, increase
  3. to act quickly

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “दक्ष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0465.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दक्ष्”, 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 069
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “दक्ष्”, 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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