क्षेम

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit क्षेम (kṣéma).

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /kʂeːm/, [kʃẽːm]

क्षेम • (kṣem) (indeclinable)

1. habitable
2. comfortable, at ease

क्षेम • (kṣem) m

1. (rare, formal) safety, tranquillity, peace, rest
2. an easy or comfortable state, happiness, welfare, prosperity

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “क्षेम”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “क्षेम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

From Proto-Indo-European *tḱóy-mo-, from the root *tḱey- (“to settle, to live”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”) (modern English home), Proto-Balto-Slavic *káimas (“settlement, village, countryside”) (Latvian ciems, Lithuanian káimas), Proto-Slavic *sěmь (“cohabitating”, adj.), Proto-Celtic *koimos (“dear”, adj.), and Albanian komb (“community, folk”). The Sanskrit root is क्षि (kṣi, “to dwell”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kʂɐ́j.mɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʂeː.mɐ/

क्षेम • (kṣéma) stem

1. habitable
2. residing, abiding at ease

क्षेम • (kṣéma) stem, m or n

1. safety, tranquillity, peace, rest
2. an easy or comfortable state, happiness, welfare, prosperity
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 7.82.4:

     युवामिद्युत्सु पृतनासु वह्नयो युवां क्षेमस्य प्रसवे मितज्ञवः ।
     ईशाना वस्व उभयस्य कारव इन्द्रावरुणा सुहवा हवामहे ॥

     yuvāmidyutsu pṛtanāsu vahnayo yuvāṃ kṣemasya prasave mitajñavaḥ.
     īśānā vasva ubhayasya kārava indrāvaruṇā suhavā havāmahe.

     In battels and in frays we ministering priests, kneeling upon our knees for furtherance of our welfare,
     Invoke you, only you, the Lords of twofold wealth, you prompt to hear, we bards, O Indra-Varuṇa.

3. basis, foundation

• योगक्षेम (yogakṣema)

• क्षेषत् (kṣéṣat)
• क्षेत्र (kṣétra)

• Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀔𑁂𑀫 (khema)
• Pali: khema
• → Hindi: क्षेम (kṣem) (learned)
• → Kannada: ಕ್ಷೇಮ (kṣēma)

• Monier Williams (1899) “क्षेम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 332/3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 437