चक्ष्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷeḱ- (to see, look). Related to काश् (kāś, to shine, appear), possibly via reduplication (with hypothetical root shape *kʷe-kʷḱ-).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Root

चक्ष् • (cakṣ)

  1. to appear, become visible
  2. to see, look at, observe, notice
  3. to tell, inform
  4. to take anyone (acc.) for (acc.)

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms
Secondary forms
  • चक्ष्यते (cakṣyate, passive)
  • चक्षयति (cakṣayati, causative)
Non-finite forms
  • चक्षित (cakṣita, past participle)
  • चष्टुम् (caṣṭum, infinitive)
  • चक्ष॑से (cákṣase, infinitive)
  • चक्षे॑ (cákṣe, infinitive)
  • चक्ष्य॑ (cákṣya, gerundive)
Derived nominal forms
Prefixed root forms
  • अनुचक्ष् (anucakṣ)
  • अभिचक्ष् (abhicakṣ)
  • अवचक्ष् (avacakṣ)
  • आचक्ष् (ācakṣ)
  • परिचक्ष् (paricakṣ)
  • प्रचक्ष् (pracakṣ)
  • प्रतिचक्ष् (praticakṣ)
  • विचक्ष् (vicakṣ)
  • व्याचक्ष् (vyācakṣ)
  • संचक्ष् (saṃcakṣ)
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root चक्ष् (0 c, 6 e)
Category Terms derived from the Sanskrit root चक्ष् not found

References

  1. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “CAKṢ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 523
  2. ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “cakṣ”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 113

Further reading

  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “cakṣ”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.