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लक्ष्

See also: लक्ष, लाक्षा, and लक्ष्मी

Sanskrit edit

Alternative scripts edit

Alternative scripts

Etymology edit

Perhaps an l-form of रक्ष् (rakṣ, “to protect”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Root edit

लक्ष् • (lakṣ)

  1. to perceive, observe
  2. to recognise
  3. to mark, sign
  4. to characterize, define
  5. to indicate, designate indirectly
  6. to aim, direct towards, have in view, mean
  7. to consider or regard as
  8. to suppose of someone that they will (do etc.)
  9. to know, understand, recognize by or as or that
  10. to notice, perceive, observe, see, view
  11. to be meant or intended
  12. to be named or called
  13. to be perceived or seen, appear, seem, look like

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “लक्ष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0891/3.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 144
  • Differentiation of Meanings in the English and German Language: The Case of the Concept 'Vision'
  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “lakuṭa- - lákṣman-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 472
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