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Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- কষ্ (Assamese script)
- ᬓᬱ᭄ (Balinese script)
- কষ্ (Bengali script)
- 𑰎𑰬𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀓𑀱𑁆 (Brahmi script)
- ကၑ် (Burmese script)
- કષ્ (Gujarati script)
- ਕਸ਼੍ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌕𑌷𑍍 (Grantha script)
- ꦏꦰ꧀ (Javanese script)
- 𑂍𑂭𑂹 (Kaithi script)
- ಕಷ್ (Kannada script)
- កឞ៑ (Khmer script)
- ກຩ຺ (Lao script)
- കഷ് (Malayalam script)
- ᡬᠠᢢ (Manchu script)
- 𑘎𑘬𑘿 (Modi script)
- ᢉᠠᢔ (Mongolian script)
- 𑦮𑧌𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐎𑐲𑑂 (Newa script)
- କଷ୍ (Odia script)
- ꢒꢰ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆑𑆰𑇀 (Sharada script)
- 𑖎𑖬𑖿 (Siddham script)
- කෂ් (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩜𑪀 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚊𑚶 (Takri script)
- கஷ் (Tamil script)
- కష్ (Telugu script)
- กษฺ (Thai script)
- ཀ་ཥ྄ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒏𑒭𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨋𑨯𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
From a colloquial form of the root कृष् (kṛṣ, “to draw, pull, drag”). Pokorny's original derivation from a supposed Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”) (for which he cites Proto-Slavic *korsta (“scab”), Lithuanian karsiu (“to comb”), and English harsh) is obsolete.
Pronunciation
Root
कष् • (kaṣ)
- to rub, scratch, scrape
- to itch
- to rub with a touchstone, test, try
- to injure, hurt, destroy
- to leap
Derived terms
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Secondary Forms
- Non-Finite Forms
- Derived Nominal Forms
- कष (káṣa, “rubbing, scraping, rubbing away”)
- कषण (káṣaṇa, “rubbing oneself”)
- कषि (kaṣí, “hurtful, injurious”)
- कषाय (kaṣāya, “astringent, extract”)
- कष्ट (kaṣṭá, “injury, pain, hardship”)
Descendants
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “कष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0265/2.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 018
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “कष्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 331-2
- Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 269
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “532”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 532
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 231