शक्
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- শক্ (Assamese script)
- ᬰᬓ᭄ (Balinese script)
- শক্ (Bengali script)
- 𑰫𑰎𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀰𑀓𑁆 (Brahmi script)
- ၐက် (Burmese script)
- શક્ (Gujarati script)
- ਸ਼ਕ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌶𑌕𑍍 (Grantha script)
- ꦯꦏ꧀ (Javanese script)
- 𑂬𑂍𑂹 (Kaithi script)
- ಶಕ್ (Kannada script)
- ឝក៑ (Khmer script)
- ຨກ຺ (Lao script)
- ശക് (Malayalam script)
- ᡧᠠᡬ (Manchu script)
- 𑘫𑘎𑘿 (Modi script)
- ᠱᠠᢉ (Mongolian script)
- 𑧋𑦮𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐱𑐎𑑂 (Newa script)
- ଶକ୍ (Odia script)
- ꢯꢒ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆯𑆑𑇀 (Sharada script)
- 𑖫𑖎𑖿 (Siddham script)
- ශක් (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩿𑩜 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚧𑚊𑚶 (Takri script)
- ஶக் (Tamil script)
- శక్ (Telugu script)
- ศกฺ (Thai script)
- ཤ་ཀ྄ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒬𑒏𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨮𑨋𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱek-
Sanskrit शक्
Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śak-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćak-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱek- (“to be able”).[1] Cognate with Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬐- (sak-, “to agree”), Proto-Germanic *hagaz (“capable”), perhaps whence English hex (“to cast a spell”) and hag (“witch-like woman”), and Old Irish cécht (“might, power”).
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /ɕɐk/
- (Classical Sanskrit) IPA(key): /ɕɐk/
Root
शक् • (śak)
- to be able
- can
Derived terms
Primary verbal forms
- श॒क्नोति॑ (śaknóti, present)
- श॒क्ष्यति॑ (śakṣyáti, future)
- श॒क्ता (śaktā́, periphrastic future)
- अश॑कत् (áśakat, aorist)
- श॒शाक॑ (śaśā́ka, perfect)
Secondary forms
- श॒क्यते॑ (śakyáte, passive)
- अशा॑कि (áśāki, passive aorist)
- शा॒कय॑ति (śākáyati, causative)
- अशी॑शकत् (áśīśakat, causative aorist)
- शाशक्यते (śāśakyate, intensive)
Non-finite forms
- श॒क्त (śaktá, past participle)
- श॒कि॒त (śakitá, past participle)
- शक्तवे (śaktave, infinitive)
- शक्तुम् (śaktum, infinitive)
- शक्य (śakya, gerundive)
Derived nominal forms
- शक्मन् (śákman, “power, strength, ability, capacity, enterprise”)
- शाक्मन् (śā́kman, “support, enabling, assistance, aid”)
- शग्म (śagmá, “potent, mighty, efficacious; friendly, supportive, enabling”)
- शाक (śā́ka, “power”)
- शाक (śāká, “strong, helpful”)
- शची (śacī)
- शाकी॑ (śā́kī)
- शाचि (śāci)
- शक्ति (śakti)
- श॒क्र (śakrá)
- शिक्व (śikva)
- शक्वन् (śakvan)
- शिक्वन् (śikvan)
- शिक्वस् (śikvas)
- शचिष्ठ (śaciṣṭha)
Sanskrit terms belonging to the root शक् (0 c, 7 e)
Terms derived from the Sanskrit root शक् (14 c, 0 e)
- शिक्ष् (√śíkṣ, desiderative root)
References
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), “ŚAK”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 600
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899), “शक्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1044, column 1.
- William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 169
- Cheung, Johnny (2007), “*sač1”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 323