Sanskrit edit

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Root edit

जप् (jap)

  1. to whisper, mutter, utter in a low voice, especially prayers or incantations
  2. to pray in a low voice
  3. to invoke or call upon in a low voice

References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “जप्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0411.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “जप्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 052
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “जप्”, 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