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

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References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “दुष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0488.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दुष्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 076
  • 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] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 735-736
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