धा

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Konkani

Konkani cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : धा (dhā)
    Ordinal : धावें (dhāvẽ)

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)

  1. ten

Sanskrit

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”). Cognate with Ancient Greek θέμα (théma, “that which is put down”), Proto-Hellenic *tʰétis (“a placement, arrangement”) whence Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis); Latin faciō (“make, do”) whence English fact, factory etc; English do, deed, deem, doom.

Pronunciation

Root

धा • (dhā)

  1. to put, place, set, lay in or on
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.121.1:
      हि॒र॒ण्य॒ग॒र्भः सम॑वर्त॒ताग्रे॑ भू॒तस्य॑ जा॒तः पति॒रेक॑ आसीत्।
      स दा॑धार पृथि॒वीं द्यामु॒तेमां कस्मै॑ दे॒वाय॑ ह॒विषा॑ विधेम॥
      hiraṇyagarbháḥ sámavartatā́gre bhūtásya jātáḥ pátiréka āsīt.
      sá dādhāra pṛthivī́ṃ dyā́mutémā́ṃ kásmai devā́ya havíṣā vidhema.
      Hiraṇyagarbha was present at the beginning; when born, he was the sole lord of created beings; he upheld this earth and heaven-- let us offer worship with an oblation to the divine.

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root धा‎ (0 c, 7 e)
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Descendants

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root धा‎ (5 c, 0 e)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “धा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0513.
  • 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 082
  • 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
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