सखि

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
  • সখি (Assamese script)
  • ᬲᬔᬶ (Balinese script)
  • সখি (Bengali script)
  • 𑰭𑰏𑰰 (Bhaiksuki script)
  • 𑀲𑀔𑀺 (Brahmi script)
  • သခိ (Burmese script)
  • સખિ (Gujarati script)
  • ਸਖਿ (Gurmukhi script)
  • 𑌸𑌖𑌿 (Grantha script)
  • ꦱꦑꦶ (Javanese script)
  • 𑂮𑂎𑂱 (Kaithi script)
  • ಸಖಿ (Kannada script)
  • សខិ (Khmer script)
  • ສຂິ (Lao script)
  • സഖി (Malayalam script)
  • ᠰᠠᡘᡳ (Manchu script)
  • 𑘭𑘏𑘱 (Modi script)
  • ᠰᠠᠻᠢ (Mongolian script)
  • 𑧍𑦯𑧒 (Nandinagari script)
  • 𑐳𑐏𑐶 (Newa script)
  • ସଖି (Odia script)
  • ꢱꢓꢶ (Saurashtra script)
  • 𑆱𑆒𑆴 (Sharada script)
  • 𑖭𑖏𑖰 (Siddham script)
  • සඛි (Sinhalese script)
  • 𑪁𑩝𑩑 (Soyombo script)
  • 𑚨𑚋𑚮 (Takri script)
  • ஸகி² (Tamil script)
  • సఖి (Telugu script)
  • สขิ (Thai script)
  • ས་ཁི (Tibetan script)
  • 𑒮𑒐𑒱 (Tirhuta script)
  • 𑨰𑨌𑨁 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *sákʰā, from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷH- (“friend, companion”), from *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬑𐬌 (haxi, “friend”), Latin socius (“partner, companion”), Proto-Germanic *sagjaz (“warrior, retainer”), Old English secg (“man, warrior, hero”).

Pronunciation

Noun

सखि • (sákhi) stem, m (feminine सखी)

  1. a friend, companion
    Synonyms: मित्र (mitra), हित (hita)
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 6.26.8:
      वयं ते अस्यामिन्द्र द्युम्नहूतौ सखायः स्याम महिन प्रेष्ठाः ।
      vayaṃ te asyāmindra dyumnahūtau sakhāyaḥ syāma mahina preṣṭhāḥ.
      O Indra, at this holy invocation, may we be thy friends and thy most beloved.
  2. assistant
  3. the husband of the wife's sister, brother-in-law

Usage notes

This noun has for the five strong cases a peculiarly strengthened base (vrddhied), namely sákhāy, which in the nominative singular is reduced to sákhā (without ending), and in the other cases takes the normal endings; this declensional paradigm is considered to most faithfully preserve the original declension of PIE *oi-stems. The instrumental and dative singular have the normal endings simply, without inserted n or guṇa; the ablative-genitive singular adds -us; and the locative singular adds -au: the rest exhibits normal endings of the paradigm.

Declension
Masculine i-stem declension of सखि (sákhi)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative सखा
sákhā		 सखायौ
sákhāyau		 सखायः
sákhāyaḥ
Vocative सखे
sákhe		 सखायौ
sákhāyau		 सखायः
sákhāyaḥ
Accusative सखायम्
sákhāyam		 सखायौ
sákhāyau		 सखीन्
sákhīn
Instrumental सख्या
sákhyā		 सखिभ्याम्
sákhibhyām		 सखिभिः
sákhibhiḥ
Dative सख्ये
sákhye		 सखिभ्याम्
sákhibhyām		 सखिभ्यः
sákhibhyaḥ
Ablative सख्युः
sákhyuḥ		 सखिभ्याम्
sákhibhyām		 सखिभ्यः
sákhibhyaḥ
Genitive सख्युः
sákhyuḥ		 सख्योः
sákhyoḥ		 सखीनाम्
sákhīnām
Locative सख्यौ
sákhyau		 सख्योः
sákhyoḥ		 सखिषु
sákhiṣu

References
  • Monier Williams (1899) “सखि”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1130.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 684-685
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