Sanskrit edit

Alternative scripts edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *seg-, *seng- (to fasten, attach, touch). Cognate with Lithuanian sègti (to fasten, to pin), Latvian segt (to cover), Proto-Slavic *sę̄gnǫ̀ti (to reach).

Pronunciation edit

Root edit

सञ्ज् (sañj)

  1. to go, move
  2. to cling or stick or adhere to, be attached to or engaged in or occupied with
  3. to be attached or fastened, adhere, cling, stick
  4. to linger, hesitate
  5. to be devoted to, intent on or occupied with
  6. to cause to stick or cling to, unite or connect with

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “सञ्ज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1132/3.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 182
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “सञ्ज्”, 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
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “सञ्ज्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 688-9