ईदृश्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From (ī, this) +‎ दृश् (dṛś, to see, look), i.e. "from this appearance".[1] For a semantic parallel of "to see" > "object with seen qualities", albeit from a different Indo-European root, compare Latin speciēs (view; type, quality).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ई॒दृश् • (īdṛ́ś) stem

  1. endowed with such qualities, such

Declension

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Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “īdṛ́ś-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 204

Further reading

  • Monier Williams (1899), “ईदृश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 170, column 2.
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “īdṛś”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.