दधाति
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *dádʰaHti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰádʰaHti, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, from *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τίθημι (títhēmi), Latin faciō, Old English dōn (whence English do).
Verb
दधाति • (dádhāti) (root धा, class 3, type UP, present)
- to put, place, set, lay in or on
- to inflict punishment on
- to put one's foot in another's footstep i.e. imitate
- to take or bring or help to
- to direct or fix the mind or attention upon, think of, fix or resolve upon
- to destine for, bestow on, present or impart to
- to appoint, establish, constitute
- to render
- to make, produce, generate, create, cause, effect, perform, execute
- to seize, take hold of, hold, bear, support, wear, put on (clothes)
- to accept, obtain, conceive (especially in the womb), to take pleasure or delight in
- to assume, have, possess, show, exhibit, incur, undergo
- to wish to put in or lay on
- to wish to give or present
- to wish to gain, strive after
- to bid defiance
Descendants
- Dardic: *dádʰāti
- Kalasha: dyek
- Pali: dahati
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “दधाति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 513.
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