cl. 5. P. ([Dhātup. xxvii, 15]) śaknoti (pf. śaśā́ka, śekúḥ, [RV.] &c. &c.; aor. áśakat, [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’; śakéma vājíno yámam, ‘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.
, [Cf., accord. to some, Gk. ὄπις, ἀοσσητήρ; Germ. Hag, Hecke, hegen; behagen.]