अध्यक्ष

Borrowed from Sanskrit अध्यक्ष (adhyakṣa).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /əd̪ʱ.jəkʂ/,

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अध्यक्ष • (adhyakṣ) m

1. chairman, head, chief, president

   लोक सभा अध्यक्ष ― lok sabhā adhyakṣ ― speaker of the Lok Sabha

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अध्यक्ष (adhyakṣa).

• IPA^(key):

अध्यक्ष • (adhyakṣa) (Latin script odheokxo, Kannada script ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ)

1. president

   Synonym: पिर्गेंत (pirgenta)

• Pushpak Bhattacharyya (2017) IndoWordNet‎

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अध्यक्ष (adhyakṣa).

• IPA^(key): ,
• Phonetic Devanagari: अदक्छे, or अद्देक्छे

अध्यक्ष • (adhyakṣa)

1. chairman, head, chief, president

• “अध्यक्ष”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś) [Comprehensive Nepali Dictionary]‎, Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
• Schmidt, Ruth L. (1993) “अध्यक्ष”, in A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali, Ratna Sagar

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• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́dʱ.jɐk.ʂɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɐd̪ʱˈjɐk.ʂɐ/

अध्यक्ष • (adhyakṣa) stem, m or n

1. eyewitness, overseer, inspector
2. perception

• → Hindustani: adhyakṣ
  • Hindi: अध्यक्ष
  • Urdu: ادھیکش
• → Konkani:

  Devanagari script: अध्यक्ष

  Latin script: odheokxo

  Kannada script: ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷ

• → Old Javanese: adhyakṣa
  • > Javanese: ꦗꦏ꧀ꦱ (jaksa) (inherited)
    • → Min Nan: 若卅
    • → Indonesian: jaksa
    • → Malay: jaksa
• → Nepali: अध्यक्ष (adhyakṣa) (learned)

• Apte, Macdonell (2022) “अध्यक्ष”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]