नेक्षण

From the root निक्ष् (nikṣ, “to pierce”) +‎ -अन (-ana) (with guṇation), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nayȷ́žʰ- (“to pierce”). Related to Rigvedic नीक्षण (nīkṣaṇa) and cognate to Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬉𐬰𐬀 (naēza, “tip of a needle”). Also compare Persian نیش (niš, “lance”), نیزه (“spear”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /nɐ́jk.ʂɐ.ɳɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈn̪eːk.ʂɐ.ɳɐ/

नेक्षण • (nékṣaṇa) stem, n

1. a sharp stick or a fork used for cooking
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 9.6.17:

     स्रुग्दर्विर्नेक्षणम्आयवनं द्रोणकलशाः कुम्भ्यो वायव्यानि
     पात्राणीयमेव कृष्णाजिनम् ॥

     srugdarvirnekṣaṇamāyavanaṃ droṇakalaśāḥ kumbhyo vāyavyāni
     pātrāṇīyameva kṛṣṇājinam.

     The spoon, ladle, fork, stirring-prong are the wooden Soma tubs; the earthen cooking-pots are the mortar-shaped Soma vessels;
     this earth is just the black-antelope's skin.

• Monier Williams (1899) “नेक्षण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 568, column 3.
• Arthur Berriedale Keith, Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1912) “nekṣaṇa”, in Vedic index of names and subjects, volume 1, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. , →OCLC, page 458