कन्

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See also: कम

Sanskrit

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Alternative scripts

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-Iranian *kanH- (to love, take pleasure in), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kenh₂- (to be pleased, enjoy), infixed nasal stem of *keh₂- (to like, wish).

Pronunciation

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Root

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कन् (kan)

  1. to be satisfied or pleased
  2. to agree to, accept with satisfaction

References

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  • Monier Williams (1899) “कन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 248.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 017
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “कन्”, 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