शास्

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Etymology

    From Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₁s- (“to teach, indicate; instruct”). Compare Albanian them (“to say”).

    Pronunciation

    Root

    शास् • (śās)

    1. to teach, instruct, inform
    2. to correct, chastize, censure
    3. to direct, command, decree
    4. to proclaim
    5. to praise, commend

    Derived terms

    Sanskrit terms belonging to the root शास् (0 c, 3 e)
    Terms derived from the Sanskrit root शास् (4 c, 0 e)
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    References

    • Monier Williams (1899) “शास्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1068, column 3.
    • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 172
    • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “śās”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
    • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “ŚĀS”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 632-633
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