शाखा

Borrowed from Sanskrit शाखा (śākhā).

शाखा • (śākhā) f

1. branch, field of study.

   ज्यामिति गणित की एक शाखा है।

   jyāmiti gaṇit kī ek śākhā hai.

   Geometry is but one branch of mathematics.

2. sect, school; shakha.
3. tributary (of a river)

   Synonyms: उपनदी (upandī), सहायक नदी (sahāyak nadī)

4. branch (of a business)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “शाखा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 947

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱak- (“branch”). Cognates include Old Armenian ցախ (cʿax, “branch, twig”), Gothic 𐌷𐍉𐌷𐌰 (hōha, “plough”), Old East Slavic соха (soxa, “stake, club, brace, plough”), Lithuanian šakà (“branch”), Old Irish géc (“branch”) and Persian شاخ‎ (šâx, “branch”).

शाखा • (śā́khā) f

1. branch (literally and figuratively)
   • RV 7.43.1

     पर वो यज्ञेषु देवयन्तो अर्चन दयावा नमोभिः परिथिवी इषध्यै |

     येषां बरह्माण्यसमानि विप्रा विष्वग वियन्ति वनिनो न शाखाः ||

     pra vo yajñeṣu devayanto arcan dyāvā namobhiḥ prithivī iṣadhyai |

     yeṣāṃ brahmāṇyasamāni viprā viṣvagh viyanti vanino na śākhāḥ ||

     SING out the pious at your sacrifices to move with adorations Earth and Heaven-

     The Holy Singers, whose unmatched devotions, like a tree's branches, part in all directions.

2. a limb of the body, arm or leg
3. finger
4. the surface of the body
5. a door-post (compare द्वारशाखा (dvāra-śākhā))
6. the wing of a building
7. division, subdivision
8. the third part of an astrological संहिता (saṃhitā) (also शाखास्कन्ध (śākhā-skandha), m.)
9. shakha: a branch or school of the Veda (each school adhering to its own traditional text and interpretation)
10. a branch of any science
11. = पाक्षान्तर (pā-kṣā-ntara)
12. = अन्तिक (antika)

• Monier Williams (1899), “शाखा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 1062.