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Sanskrit
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Etymology Uncertain. Suggestions have included:
Derived from *लक्ष ( *lakṣa ) , *रक्ष ( *rakṣa , “ red; redness ” ) (related to Proto-Iranian *raxšah ( “ dark-colored ” ) ), from रज् ( raj , “ to become red ” )
From Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- ( “ salmon, trout ” ) , related to Latvian lasis Middle Low German las ( “ salmon ” ) , Russian лосо́сь ( losósʹ , “ salmon ” ) , etc.
From लक्ष ( lakṣa , “ one hundred thousand ” ) , referring to the insects gathered to create the resin
Noun लाक्षा • (lākṣā́ ) stem , f
( botany ) plant a kind of red dye , lac (obtained from the cochineal or a similar insect as well as from the resin of a particular tree)
the insect or animal which produces the red dye
Declension
Descendants Dardic:
Prakrit: 𑀮𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀸 ( lakkhā , “ lac ” ) Northwestern Indo-Aryan:
Central Indo-Aryan:Old Hindi:Hindi: लाख ( lākh , “ lac ” ) see there for further descendants )
Urdu: لاکھ ( lākh )
Southern Indo-Aryan:
Western Indo-Aryan: With eastern -ākṣā- > -ākhā- (for which compare the development of 𑀭𑀸𑀇 ( rāi , “ night ” ) ):
Punjabi: ਲਾਖਾ ( lākhā )
Prakrit:Eastern Indo-Aryan:Bengali: লাহা ( laha ) , লা ( la )
Assamese: লা ( la )
Odia: ଲାହା ( lāhā ) , ନାହା ( nāhā )
Maithili: लाह ( lāh )
→ Hindi: लाह m ( lāh ) , ला f ( lā ) → Nepali: लाहा f ( lāhā )
References
^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996 ) “lākṣā́- ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen 477 ^ “lac ”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2016 , →ISBN ^ Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.
^ Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.
^ Monier Williams (1899 ) “लाक्षा ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press , →OCLC 0899/3