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Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *darś-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *darć-, from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ- (“to see”).
Root
दृश् • (dṛś)
- to see, look
Usage notes
The verbal system uses the suppletive verb पश्यति (paśyati) in the present and imperfect tenses.
Derived terms
- Primary Verbal Forms
- Secondary Forms
- Non-Finite Forms
- दृष्ट (dṛṣṭá, Past Participle)
- द्रष्टुम् (dráṣṭum, Infinitive)
- दृशे (dṛśé, Infinitive)
- दृशये (dṛśáye, Infinitive)
- दृष्ट्वा (dṛṣṭvā́, Gerund)
- दृष्ट्वाय (dṛṣṭvā́ya, Gerund)
- दृश्य (dṛ́śya, Gerund)
- दर्शम् (darśam, Gerund)
- दृश्य (dṛ́śya, Gerundive)
- दर्श्य (dárśya, Gerundive)
- द्रष्टव्य (draṣṭavyà, Gerundive)
- दर्शनीय (darśanī́ya, Gerundive)
- दृशेन्य (dṛśénya, Gerundive)
- दिदृक्षु (didṛ́kṣu, Desiderative Participle)
- दिदृक्षेण्य (didṛkṣéṇya, Desiderative Gerundive)
- दिदृक्षेय (didṛkṣéya, Desiderative Gerundive)
- Derived Nominal Forms
- Prefixed Root Forms
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “दृश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 491/1-2.
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 78
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 704-706; 741
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “dṛś”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.