अक्ष

Borrowed from Sanskrit अक्ष (akṣa), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-. Compare English axis.

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /əkʂ/,

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अक्ष • (akṣ) m (Urdu spelling اکش)

1. axle, axis
2. die (cube used in the game of dice)
3. (geography) latitude

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *Háṭṣas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćšas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-. Cognate with Latin axis.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐ́k.ʂɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɐk.ʂɐ/

अक्ष॑ • (ákṣa) stem, m ^[1]

1. axle, axis
2. wheel, car, cart
3. the beam of a balance or string which holds the pivot of the beam
4. snake
5. terrestrial latitude
6. the collar-bone
7. the temporal bone

• Pali: akkha
• Prakrit: 𑀅𑀓𑁆𑀔 (akkha) (see there for further descendants)

Uncertain; per Mayrhofer, probably of non-Indo-European origin.^[2] The comparison with अक्ष (akṣa, “eye”) is probably not tenable since Indian dice were not dotted the same way as Western dice. Compare अक्षोट (akṣoṭa, “walnut”), which may have a shared origin. Compare also Latin ālea (“die; dice-game”) which derives from axis (“axle”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɐk.ʂɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɐk.ʂɐ/

अ॒क्ष • (akṣá) stem, m ^[3]

1. (gambling) die; cube
2. the plant Elaeocarpus angustifolius or its seed

• Pali: akkha, accha
• Prakrit: 𑀅𑀓𑁆𑀔 (akkha) (see there for further descendants)

• Monier Williams (1899) “अक्ष”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 3.