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From Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (to harm, deceive). Cognate with Persian فریفتن (fariftan, to deceive), Old Armenian դաւ (daw, deceit, conspiracy) (an Iranian borrowing), Hittite [script needed] (tepnu-, to decrease, to humble), and perhaps Ancient Greek ἀτέμβω (atémbō, to maltreat; to be bereft of).

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दभ् (dabh)

  1. to harm, injure, destroy
  2. to deceive, abandon

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “दभ्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0469/2.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दभ्”, 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 070
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “दभ्”, 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
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1963) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 17-8
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 42-3