As a Hindi name
शक्य · adj
किया जाने योग्य । जो किया जा सके । संभव । क्रियात्मक · जिसमें शक्ति हो — Śabdasāgara
शक्य · noun · masculine
शब्दशक्ति के द्वारा प्रकट होनेवाला अर्थ । जैसे— 'अग्नि' पद में अंगार रुप की शक्ति है अतः अग्निपद का अंगार शक्य अथवा वाच्य है । (व्याकरण) — Śabdasāgara
शक्य · śakya · adj.
Possible, capable, practicable, capable of being effected or done, easy to be accomplished; requiring to be effected or done; that may be conveyed or expressed (as sense or meaning by any particular word) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 731
शक्य
possible, likely to happen; practical, worthwhile
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi शक्य — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit शक्य (śakya).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
śakya mf(ā)n. able, possible, practicable, capable of being (with inf. in pass. sense, e.g. na sā śakyā netum balāt, ‘she cannot be conducted by force’; tan mayā śakyam pratipattum, ‘that is able to be acquired by me’; the form śakyam may also be used with a nom. case which is in a different gender or number, e.g. śakyaṃ śva-māṃsādibhir api kṣut pratihantum, ‘hunger can be appeased even by dog's flesh &c.’; cf. Vām. v, 2, 25), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
to be conquered or subdued, liable to be compelled to (inf.), MBh.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
able, possible, practicable, capable of being (with inf. in pass. sense, e.g., ‘she cannot be conducted by force’; ‘that is able to be acquired by me’; the form śakyam may also be…
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M3 · meaning shifts "śakya" is derived from "śak" with the yat suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
śak cl. 5. P. (Dhātup. xxvii, 15) śaknoti (pf. śaśāka, śekuḥ, RV. &c. &c.; aor. aśakat, AV. &c. [Ved. also Pot. śakeyam and śakyām; Impv. śagdhi, śaktam]; fut. śaktā, or śakitā Gr. ; śakṣyati, ˚te, Br. &c.; śakiṣyate, ˚te Gr.; inf. -śaktave, RV.; śaktum or śakitum Gr.), to be strong or powerful, be able to or capable of or competent for (with acc. dat. or loc., rarely acc. of a verbal noun, or with an inf. in am or tum; or with pr.p.; e.g. with grahaṇāya or grahaṇe, ‘to be able to seize’; vadha-nirṇekam a-śaknuvan, ‘unable to atone for slaughter’; śakema vājino yamam, ‘may we be able to guide horses’; vīkṣitum na śaknoti, ‘he is not able to see’; pūrayan na śaknoti, ‘he is not able to fill’), RV. &c. &c. (in these meanings ep. also śakyati, ˚te, with inf. in tuṃ cf. Dhātup. xxvi, 78); to be strong or exert one's self for another (dat.), aid, help, assist, RV. vii, 67, 5; 68, 8 &c.; to help to (dat. of thing), ib. ii, 2, 12; iv, 21, 10 &c. : Pass. śakyate (ep. also ˚ti), to be overcome or subdued, succumb, MBh.; to yield, give way, ib.; to be compelled or caused by any one (instr.) to (inf.), ib.; to be able or capable or possible or practicable (with an inf. in pass. sense, e.g. tat kartuṃ śakyate, ‘that can be done’; sometimes with pass. p., e.g. na śakyate vāryamāṇaḥ, ‘he cannot be restrained’; or used impers., with or with out instr., e.g. yadi [tvayā] śakyate, ‘if it can be done by thee’, ‘if it is possible’), Mn.; MBh. &c. : Caus. śākayati (aor. aśīśakat), Gr.: Desid. See √ śikṣ.
śak, [Cf., accord. to some, Gk. ὄπις, ἀοσσητήρ; Germ. Hag, Hecke, hegen; behagen.]
śakya mf(ā)n. able, possible, practicable, capable of being (with inf. in pass. sense, e.g. na sā śakyā netum balāt, ‘she cannot be conducted by force’; tan mayā śakyam pratipattum, ‘that is able to be acquired by me’; the form śakyam may also be used with a nom. case which is in a different gender or number, e.g. śakyaṃ śva-māṃsādibhir api kṣut pratihantum, ‘hunger can be appeased even by dog's flesh &c.’; cf. Vām. v, 2, 25), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
to be conquered or subdued, liable to be compelled to (inf.), MBh.
Dictionary citations
śakya mf(ā)n. able, possible, practicable, capable of being (with inf. in pass. sense, e.g. na sā śakyā netum balāt, ‘she cannot be conducted by force’; tan mayā śakyam pratipattum, ‘that is able to be acquired by me’; the form śakyam may also be used with a nom. case which is in a different gender or number, e.g. śakyaṃ śva-māṃsādibhir api kṣut pratihantum, ‘hunger can be appeased even by dog's flesh &c.’; cf. Vām. v, 2, 25), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
to be conquered or subdued, liable to be compelled to (inf.), MBh.
explicit, direct, literal (as the meaning of a word or sentence, opp. to lakṣya and vyaṅgya), Alaṃkāraś.
śakya pot. p. 1 Possible, practicable, capable of being done or effected (usually with an inf.); śa kyo vārayituṃ jalena hutabhuk Bh. 2. 11, R. 2. 49, 54. 2 Fit to be effected. 3 Easy to be effected. 4 Directly conveyed or expressed (as the meaning of a word); śakyo'rtho'bhidhayā jñeyaḥ S. D. 10. 5 Potential. (The form śakyaṃ is some times used as a predicative word with an inf. in a passive sense, the real object of the infinitive being in the nom. case; evaṃ hi praṇaya vatī sā śakyamupekṣituṃ kupitā M. 3. 22; śakyaṃ…aviralamāliṃgitu pavanaḥ Ś. 3. 7, vibhūtayaḥ śakyamava ptumūrjitāḥ Subhāṣ.; Bg. 18. 11.). Comp. — arthaḥ the meaning directly expressed. — pratīkāra a. remediable.
śakya mfn. (-kyaḥ-kyā-kyaṃ) Possible, practicable, to be effected or done. E. śaka to be able, aff. yat.
śak cl. 5. P. (Dhātup. xxvii, 15) śaknoti (pf. śaśāka, śekuḥ, RV. &c. &c.; aor. aśakat, AV. &c. [Ved. also Pot. śakeyam and śakyām; Impv. śagdhi, śaktam]; fut. śaktā, or śakitā Gr. ; śakṣyati, ˚te, Br. &c.; śakiṣyate, ˚te Gr.; inf. -śaktave, RV.; śaktum or śakitum Gr.), to be strong or powerful, be able to or capable of or competent for (with acc. dat. or loc., rarely acc. of a verbal noun, or with an inf. in am or tum; or with pr.p.; e.g. with grahaṇāya or grahaṇe, ‘to be able to seize’; vadha-nirṇekam a-śaknuvan, ‘unable to atone for slaughter’; śakema vājino yamam, ‘may we be able to guide horses’; vīkṣitum na śaknoti, ‘he is not able to see’; pūrayan na śaknoti, ‘he is not able to fill’), RV. &c. &c. (in these meanings ep. also śakyati, ˚te, with inf. in tuṃ cf. Dhātup. xxvi, 78); to be strong or exert one's self for another (dat.), aid, help, assist, RV. vii, 67, 5; 68, 8 &c.; to help to (dat. of thing), ib. ii, 2, 12; iv, 21, 10 &c. : Pass. śakyate (ep. also ˚ti), to be overcome or subdued, succumb, MBh.; to yield, give way, ib.; to be compelled or caused by any one (instr.) to (inf.), ib.; to be able or capable or possible or practicable (with an inf. in pass. sense, e.g. tat kartuṃ śakyate, ‘that can be done’; sometimes with pass. p., e.g. na śakyate vāryamāṇaḥ, ‘he cannot be restrained’; or used impers., with or with out instr., e.g. yadi [tvayā] śakyate, ‘if it can be done by thee’, ‘if it is possible’), Mn.; MBh. &c. : Caus. śākayati (aor. aśīśakat), Gr.: Desid. See √ śikṣ.
śak, [Cf., accord. to some, Gk. ὄπις, ἀοσσητήρ; Germ. Hag, Hecke, hegen; behagen.]
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