yakṣ (perhaps Desid. of a √ yah, from which yahu and yahva) cl. 1. P. Ā. yakṣati, te, ( prob. ) to be quick, speed on (only in prayakṣ, q.v. ; and once in yakṣāmas, to explain yakṣa, R. vii, 4, 12 ), cl. 10. Ā. yakṣayate, to worship, honour, Dhātup. xxxiii, 19.
The corpus record — Sanskrit
yakṣaṃ
yakṣ (perhaps Desid. of a √ yah, from which yahu and yahva) cl. 1. P. Ā. yakṣati, te, ( prob. ) to be quick, speed on (only in prayakṣ, q.v. ; and once in yakṣāmas, to explain yakṣa, R. vii, 4, 12 ), cl. 10. Ā. yakṣayate, to worship, honour, Dhātup. xxxiii, 19.
Every figure on this page is a live query of the corpus record.
Where it lives
- Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 2 · 0.26/10k
What it meant — Monier-Williams
In the wild
Where it came from
- Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. yaksı (vol. 3, scan p. 486; entry #5233). Root candidates: *uaxsu-, *uaxgu-.
Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.