शाक

Borrowed from Sanskrit शाक (śāka). Doublet of साग (sāg).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʃɑːk/,

शाक • (śāk) m

1. vegetable

   Synonyms: सब्ज़ी (sabzī), साग (sāg), भाजी (bhājī)

2. herb

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “शाक”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɕɑː.kɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɕɑː.kɐ/

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēko- / *ḱeHko-; compare Lithuanian šėkas (“freshly cut green fodder”), Latvian sệks (“freshly mown fodder grass”), Old Norse há (“aftergrass”), Hittite (kikla-, “herb”).

शाक • (śāka) stem, m or n

1. a vegetable, greens, any vegetable food
2. a herb, potherb

• Assamese: শাক (xak)
• Bengali: শাক (śak)
• Hindi: साग (sāg)
• Nepali: साग (sāg)
• Odia: ଶାକ (śāka)
• Pali: sāka
• Pashto: ساګ (sāg)
• Punjabi: ਸਾਗ (sāg)
• Sindhi: ساڳُہ
• → Tamil: சாகம் (cākam)
• → Telugu: శాకము (śākamu)

Probably borrowed from Dravidian; compare Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku), Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ), and Telugu టేకు (ṭēku).

शाक • (śāka) stem, m

1. the teak tree, Tectona grandis

From शक् (śak, “to be able”).

शाक • (śāka) stem, m

1. power, might, help, aid
2. helpful, a helper, friend

शाक • (śāka) stem, m

1. Alternative form of शक (śaka, “the Saka people; related to the Shaka era”)

• Monier Williams (1899) “शाक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 1061/2-3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 628
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 320-321