दीप्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *deyh₂p-, an extension of *deyh₂- (“to shine, be bright”). Related to दय् (day, “to shine”); outside of Indic, compare Persian دیبا (dêbâ, “brocade”), Old Armenian դէպ (dēp, “accident, case, suitable”) (an Iranian borrowing), Ancient Greek δῆλος (dêlos, “visible”), Lithuanian dìdelis (“big, large”).

Pronunciation

Root

दीप् • (dīp)

  1. to blaze, flare, shine, be luminous or illustrious
  2. to glow, burn
  3. to kindle, set on fire, inflame
  4. to illuminate, make illustrious
  5. to excite, rouse

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root दीप् (0 c, 1 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root दीप् (3 c, 0 e)
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Descendants

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root दीप् (3 c, 0 e)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “दीप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 481/1.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 74
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “DĪP - dīrghá-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 728
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