लाक्षा
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Sanskrit[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain. Suggestions have included:
- Derived from *लक्ष (lakṣa), *रक्ष (rakṣa, “red; redness”) (related to Proto-Iranian *raxšah (“dark-colored”)), from रज् (raj, “to become red”)[1][2]
- From Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- (“salmon, trout”), related to Latvian lasis, Middle Low German las (“salmon”), Russian лосо́сь (losósʹ, “salmon”), etc.[3]
- From लक्ष (lakṣa, “one hundred thousand”), referring to the insects gathered to create the resin[4]
Noun[edit]
लाक्षा • (lākṣā) stem, f
- (botany) a species of plant
- a kind of red dye, lac (obtained from the cochineal or a similar insect as well as from the resin of a particular tree)
- the insect or animal which produces the red dye
Declension[edit]
| Feminine ā-stem declension of लाक्षा | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nom. sg. | लाक्षा (lākṣā) | ||
| Gen. sg. | लाक्षायाः (lākṣāyāḥ) | ||
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | लाक्षा (lākṣā) | लाक्षे (lākṣe) | लाक्षाः (lākṣāḥ) |
| Vocative | लाक्षे (lākṣe) | लाक्षे (lākṣe) | लाक्षाः (lākṣāḥ) |
| Accusative | लाक्षाम् (lākṣām) | लाक्षे (lākṣe) | लाक्षाः (lākṣāḥ) |
| Instrumental | लाक्षया (lākṣayā) | लाक्षाभ्याम् (lākṣābhyām) | लाक्षाभिः (lākṣābhiḥ) |
| Dative | लाक्षायै (lākṣāyai) | लाक्षाभ्याम् (lākṣābhyām) | लाक्षाभ्यः (lākṣābhyaḥ) |
| Ablative | लाक्षायाः (lākṣāyāḥ) | लाक्षाभ्याम् (lākṣābhyām) | लाक्षाभ्यः (lākṣābhyaḥ) |
| Genitive | लाक्षायाः (lākṣāyāḥ) | लाक्षयोः (lākṣayoḥ) | लाक्षाणाम् (lākṣāṇām) |
| Locative | लाक्षायाम् (lākṣāyām) | लाक्षयोः (lākṣayoḥ) | लाक्षासु (lākṣāsu) |
References[edit]
- Monier Williams (1899) “लाक्षा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0899.
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan][1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 477
- ^ “lac”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.
- ^ Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.