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Konkani
Etymology
From Sanskrit दश (daśa), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ (“ten”). Compare Marathi दहा (dahā) and Hindi दस (das).
Numeral
धा • (dhā) (Latin script dha, Kannada script ಧಾ)
- ten
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- ধা (Assamese script)
- ᬥᬵ (Balinese script)
- ধা (Bengali script)
- 𑰠𑰯 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀥𑀸 (Brahmi script)
- ဓာ (Burmese script)
- ધા (Gujarati script)
- ਧਾ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌧𑌾 (Grantha script)
- ꦣꦴ (Javanese script)
- 𑂡𑂰 (Kaithi script)
- ಧಾ (Kannada script)
- ធា (Khmer script)
- ຘາ (Lao script)
- ധാ (Malayalam script)
- ᢡᠠᢇ (Manchu script)
- 𑘠𑘰 (Modi script)
- ᢑᠾᠠ᠋ᠠ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧀𑧑 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐢𑐵 (Newa script)
- ଧା (Odia script)
- ꢤꢵ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆣𑆳 (Sharada script)
- 𑖠𑖯 (Siddham script)
- ධා (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩮𑩛 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚜𑚭 (Takri script)
- த⁴ா (Tamil script)
- ధా (Telugu script)
- ธา (Thai script)
- དྷཱ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒡𑒰 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨜𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *dʰaH-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰaH-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-. Cognate with Ancient Greek θέμα (théma, “that which is put down”), θέσις (thésis, “placement, arrangement”); Latin faciō (“make, do”) whence English fact, factory etc; English do, deed, deem, doom.
Pronunciation
Root
धा • (dhā)
- to put, place, set, lay in or on
Derived terms
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Secondary Forms
- Non-Finite Forms
- हित (hitá, Past Participle)
- धातुम् (dhā́tum, Infinitive)
- धातवे (dhā́tave, Infinitive)
- धातवै (dhā́tavaí, Infinitive)
- धातोस् (dhā́tos, Infinitive)
- धित्वा (dhitvā́, Gerund)
- हित्वा (hitvā, Gerund)
- धेय (dheya, Gerundive)
- Derived Nominal Forms
- धातु (dhā́tu, “layer, stratum; part”)
- धातृ (dhātṛ́, “establisher, founder”)
- धान (dhā́na)
- धामन् (dhā́man)
- धाय (dhāya)
- धेष्ठ (dhéṣṭha)
- Prefixed Root Forms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “धा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 513, columns 2-3.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “धा”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 82
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “धा”, 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 783-7
- 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, pages 276, 285, 295, 413
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 136
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “235-239”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 235-239