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Sanskrit
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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱenk- (“to hang”). Cognate with English hang and Latin cūnctor (“I delay, I stall (something)”).
Root
शङ्क् • (śaṅk)
- to doubt
- to be afraid of (+ abl.)
- to hesitate
- to suppose, assume
- to suspect
Derived terms
Category Terms derived from the Sanskrit root शङ्क् not found
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Secondary Forms
- Non-Finite Forms
- Derived Nominal Forms
- शङ्क (śaṅka, “doubt, uncertainty”)
- शङ्का (śaṅkā́, “doubt, distrust, hesitation, supposition”)
- Prefixed Root Forms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “शङ्क्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1047, column 1.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 170
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 604
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “śaṅk”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.