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

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  • शास (śā́sa, order, command)
  • शासक (śāsaka, teacher, instructor, governor, ruler)
  • शासन (śā́sana, punishing)
  • शासिन् (śāsin, punishing, chastizing; governing)
  • 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, page 632-633
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