ख्या

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

Phonetic variant of क्शा (kśā), itself a metathesis of काश् (kāś, “to appear”).

Pronunciation

Root

ख्या • (khyā)

  1. to be named, be known, be announced to

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References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “ख्या”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0341/1.
  • Apte, Macdonell (2022) “ख्या”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 033
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “ख्या”, 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
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 420-1; 456-7
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