कीदृश्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From कि (ki, interrogative particle; what) + दृश् (dṛś, to see, look), the long vowel ī from analogy with ईदृश् (īdṛś, endowed with such qualities), i.e. "endowed with what qualities".[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

की॒दृश् • (kīdṛ́ś) stem

  1. of what kind?

Declension

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Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “kīdṛ́ś- (> line 1 > kīdṛ́śa-)”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 356

Further reading

  • Monier Williams (1899), “कीदृश्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 285, column 1.
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “kīdṛś”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.