दभ्

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (to harm, deceive). Cognate with Persian فریفتن (fariftan, to deceive), Old Armenian դաւ (daw, deceit, conspiracy) (an Iranian borrowing), Hittite [script needed] (tepnu-, to decrease, to humble), and perhaps Ancient Greek ἀτέμβω (atémbō, to maltreat; to be bereft of).

Pronunciation

Root

दभ् • (dabh)

  1. to harm, injure, destroy
  2. to deceive, abandon

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms
  • द॒भ्नोति॑ (dabhnóti, present)
  • दभ॑ति (dábhati, present)
  • अद॑भ्नोत् (ádabhnot, imperfect)
  • द॒दाभ॑ (dadā́bha, perfect)
Secondary forms
  • दभ्यते (dabhyate, passive)
  • दिप्स॑ति (dípsati, desiderative)
  • धीप्सति (dhīpsati, desiderative)
Derived nominal forms
  • दभ॑ (dábha)
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root दभ् (0 c, 1 e)
Category Terms derived from the Sanskrit root दभ् not found

References

  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “दभ्”, 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
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1963), Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 17-8
  • Cheung, Johnny (2007), Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 42-3
  • Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 279
  • Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 132
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 240