शंस्

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Sanskrit

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱens- (“to announce, declare solemnly”). Cognate with Persian سخن (soxan, “speech”), Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “order, honor; mankind; world”), Latin cēnseō (“recommend, decree; reckon”) (whence cēnsus), as well as possibly Latin carmen (“composition, tune”) and English herry (“praise, honor”).

Pronunciation

Root

शंस् • (śaṃs)

  1. to praise, commend, approve
  2. to recite, repeat (texts, invocations)
  3. to vow
  4. to wish
  5. to foretell, predict, prognosticate
  6. to calumniate, revile
  7. to hurt, injure
  8. to be unhappy

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root शंस् (0 c, 2 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root शंस् (1 c, 0 e)
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References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “शंस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1044, column 3.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “शंस्”, 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 169
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “शंस्”, 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
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “śaṃs”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 599-600
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