शास्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₁s- (“to teach, indicate; instruct”). Compare Albanian them (“to say”).

Pronunciation

Root

शास् • (śās)

  1. to teach, instruct, inform
  2. to correct, chastize, censure
  3. to direct, command, decree
  4. to proclaim
  5. to praise, commend

Derived terms

  • शास (śā́sa, “order, command”)
  • शासक (śāsaka, “teacher, instructor, governor, ruler”)
  • शासन (śā́sana, “punishing”)
  • शासिन् (śāsin, “punishing, chastizing; governing”)
  • शास् (śā́́s, “command, a commander”)
  • शास्ति (śāsti, “correction, punishment; order, command”)
  • शास्त्र (śāstrá, “order, command, precept, rule; instruction, teaching”)
  • शास्त्रि (śāstrí, “ruler, commander; teacher, instructor”)
  • शास्त्रिन् (śāstrin, “learned”)

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “शास्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1068/3.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 172
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “śāli- -ŚĀS”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 632-633
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