छदिस्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

    From the root छद् (chad, to cover) +‎ -इस् (-is).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    छ॒दिस् • (chadís) stemn

    1. covering; roof; roof of a carriage, thatch of a house; canopy, shelter
      • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 14.4.10:
        मनो अस्या अन आसीद् द्यौर् आसीद् उत छदिः
        शुक्राव् अनड्वाहाव् आस्तां यद् अयात् सूर्या पतिम् ॥
        mano asyā ana āsīd dyaur āsīd uta chadiḥ.
        śukrāv anaḍvāhāv āstāṃ yad ayāt sūryā patim.
        • Translation by Ralph Griffith
          Her mind was the chariot; heaven was its canopy.
          Two bright oxen were the draught animals when Sūryā went to her husband.

    Declension

    Neuter is-stem declension of छ॒दिस्
    singular dual plural
    nominative छ॒दिः (chadíḥ) छ॒दिषी॑ (chadíṣī) छ॒दींषि॑ (chadī́ṃṣi)
    accusative छ॒दिः (chadíḥ) छ॒दिषी॑ (chadíṣī) छ॒दींषि॑ (chadī́ṃṣi)
    instrumental छ॒दिषा॑ (chadíṣā) छ॒दिर्भ्या॑म् (chadírbhyām) छ॒दिर्भिः॑ (chadírbhiḥ)
    dative छ॒दिषे॑ (chadíṣe) छ॒दिर्भ्या॑म् (chadírbhyām) छ॒दिर्भ्यः॑ (chadírbhyaḥ)
    ablative छ॒दिषः॑ (chadíṣaḥ) छ॒दिर्भ्या॑म् (chadírbhyām) छ॒दिर्भ्यः॑ (chadírbhyaḥ)
    genitive छ॒दिषः॑ (chadíṣaḥ) छ॒दिषोः॑ (chadíṣoḥ) छ॒दिषा॑म् (chadíṣām)
    locative छ॒दिषि॑ (chadíṣi) छ॒दिषोः॑ (chadíṣoḥ) छ॒दिःषु॑ (chadíḥṣu)
    vocative छदिः॑ (chádiḥ) छदि॑षी (chádiṣī) छदीं॑षि (chádīṃṣi)

    Descendants

    • Pali: chadi

    References

    • Monier Williams (1899), “छदिस्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 404, column 2.
    • Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “chadis”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
    • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “chadís”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 273