द्विष्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dweys- from *dwey- (to fear). Cognate with Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, fearful) whence English dino-, Latin dīrus whence English dire.

Pronunciation

Root

द्विष् • (dviṣ)

  1. to hate, show hatred
  2. to be hostile or unfriendly
  3. to be a rival

Derived terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “द्विष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0506.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “द्विष्”, 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 081
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “द्विष्”, 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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