Sanskrit

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-p- (to bend) from *kh₂em- (to bend, curve).

Pronunciation

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Root

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कम्प् (kamp)

  1. to tremble, shake
  2. to cause to tremble or shake
  3. to pronounce in a tremulous manner

Derived terms

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References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “कम्प्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 252.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 017
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “कम्प्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016