शाखा

See also: शंख and शिखा

Sanskrit[edit]

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 ‎(šâx, “branch”).

शाखा • ‎(śā́khā) f

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

Feminine ā-stem declension of शाखा
Nom. sg.	शाखा ‎(śākhā)
Gen. sg.	शाखायाः ‎(śākhāyāḥ)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	शाखा ‎(śākhā)	शाखे ‎(śākhe)	शाखाः ‎(śākhāḥ)
Vocative	शाखे ‎(śākhe)	शाखे ‎(śākhe)	शाखाः ‎(śākhāḥ)
Accusative	शाखाम् ‎(śākhām)	शाखे ‎(śākhe)	शाखाः ‎(śākhāḥ)
Instrumental	शाखया ‎(śākhayā)	शाखाभ्याम् ‎(śākhābhyām)	शाखाभिः ‎(śākhābhiḥ)
Dative	शाखायै ‎(śākhāyai)	शाखाभ्याम् ‎(śākhābhyām)	शाखाभ्यः ‎(śākhābhyaḥ)
Ablative	शाखायाः ‎(śākhāyāḥ)	शाखाभ्याम् ‎(śākhābhyām)	शाखाभ्यः ‎(śākhābhyaḥ)
Genitive	शाखायाः ‎(śākhāyāḥ)	शाखयोः ‎(śākhayoḥ)	शाखानाम् ‎(śākhānām)
Locative	शाखायाम् ‎(śākhāyām)	शाखयोः ‎(śākhayoḥ)	शाखासु ‎(śākhāsu)

Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1062