शा
Sanskrit
editAlternative scripts
editAlternative scripts
- শা (Assamese script)
- ᬰᬵ (Balinese script)
- শা (Bengali script)
- 𑰫𑰯 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀰𑀸 (Brahmi script)
- ၐာ (Burmese script)
- શા (Gujarati script)
- ਸ਼ਾ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌶𑌾 (Grantha script)
- ꦯꦴ (Javanese script)
- 𑂬𑂰 (Kaithi script)
- ಶಾ (Kannada script)
- ឝា (Khmer script)
- ຨາ (Lao script)
- ശാ (Malayalam script)
- ᡧᠠᢇ (Manchu script)
- 𑘫𑘰 (Modi script)
- ᠱᠠ᠋ᠠ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧋𑧑 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐱𑐵 (Newa script)
- ଶା (Odia script)
- ꢯꢵ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆯𑆳 (Sharada script)
- 𑖫𑖯 (Siddham script)
- ශා (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩿𑩛 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚧𑚭 (Takri script)
- ஶா (Tamil script)
- శా (Telugu script)
- ศา (Thai script)
- ཤཱ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒬𑒰 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨮𑨊 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃(i)- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Latin catus (“clever, cunning, sharp”), cuneus (“wedge”) whence English coin; Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos) whence English cone; English hone.
Pronunciation
editRoot
editशा • (śā)
Alternative forms
edit- शि (śi)
Derived terms
edit- शिशाति (śíśāti)
References
edit- Monier Williams (1899) “शा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1069.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “शा”, 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 172
- Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “शा”, 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
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 376
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 319
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0541”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0541