धम्

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Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰemH- (to smoke, blow). Cognate with Lithuanian dùmti (to blow), Polish dąć (to blow), English damp.

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Root[edit]

धम् (dham)

  1. to blow, blow into
  2. to breathe out, exhale
  3. to kindle a fire by blowing
  4. to melt or manufacture (metal) by blowing
  5. to blow or cast away

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References[edit]

  • Monier Williams (1899) “धम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0509/3.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “धम्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 081
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “धम्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 775