दुष्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dus- (bad). Cognate with Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) whence English dys-.

Pronunciation

Root

दुष् • (duṣ)

  1. to become bad, corrupted
  2. to be defiled, impure
  3. to be ruined, perish
  4. to sin

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms
  • दुष्यति (duṣyati, present)
  • दूष्यति (dūṣyati, present)
  • दोक्ष्यति (dokṣyati, future)
  • दोष्टा (doṣṭā, periphrastic future)
  • अदुषत् (aduṣat, aorist)
  • दुदोष (dudoṣa, perfect)
Secondary forms
  • दू॒षय॑ति (dūṣáyati, causative)
  • दोषयति (doṣayati, causative)
  • अदू॑दुषत् (ádūduṣat, causative aorist)
  • दूष्यते (dūṣyate, passive of causative)
Non-finite forms
  • दु॒ष्ट (duṣṭá, past participle)
  • दोष्य (doṣya, gerundive)
  • दूषित (dūṣita, causative past participle)
  • दूष्य (dūṣya, causative gerundive)
Derived nominal forms
  • दूष (dūṣa)
  • दूषक (dūṣaka)
  • दूषण (dū́ṣaṇa, corrupting, spoiling)
  • दूषयितृ (dūṣayitṛ)
  • दूषि॑ (dū́ṣi)
  • दूषिन् (dūṣin)
  • दुष्टि॑ (dúṣṭi)
  • दोष (doṣa)
Prefixed root forms
  • अनुदुष् (anuduṣ)
  • प्रदुष् (praduṣ)
  • विदुष् (viduṣ)
  • संदुष् (saṃduṣ)
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root दुष् (0 c, 4 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root दुष् (3 c, 0 e)

See also

References

  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “दुष्”, 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 (1992), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 735-736