लक्ष्

Perhaps an l-form of रक्ष् (rakṣ, “to protect”).^[1]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /lɐkʂ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /l̪ɐkʂ/

लक्ष् • (lakṣ)

1. to perceive, observe
2. to recognise
3. to mark, sign
4. to characterize, define
5. to indicate, designate indirectly
6. to aim, direct towards, have in view, mean
7. to consider or regard as
8. to suppose of someone that they will (do etc.)
9. to know, understand, recognize by or as or that
10. to notice, perceive, observe, see, view
11. to be meant or intended
12. to be named or called
13. to be perceived or seen, appear, seem, look like

Primary Verbal Forms

Derived Nominal Forms

• Monier Williams (1899) “लक्ष्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0891/3.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 144

• Differentiation of Meanings in the English and German Language: The Case of the Concept 'Vision'