श्लाघ्

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श्लाघ् (ślāgh)

  1. to trust, confide in
  2. to talk confidently, vaunt, boast
  3. to coax, flatter, wheedle
  4. to praise, commend

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “श्लाघ्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1103.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “श्लाघ्”, 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 180
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “श्लाघ्”, 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