गल्

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Sanskrit[edit]

Alternative scripts[edit]

Alternative scripts

গল্ (Assamese script)
ᬕᬮ᭄ (Balinese script)
গল্ (Bengali script)
𑰐𑰩𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀕𑀮𑁆 (Brahmi script)
ဂလ် (Burmese script)
ગલ્ (Gujarati script)
ਗਲ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌗𑌲𑍍 (Grantha script)
ꦒꦭ꧀ (Javanese script)
𑂏𑂪𑂹 (Kaithi script)
ಗಲ್ (Kannada script)
គល៑ (Khmer script)
ຄລ຺ (Lao script)
ഗല് (Malayalam script)
ᡤᠠᠯ (Manchu script)
𑘐𑘩𑘿 (Modi script)
ᠺᠠᠯ (Mongolian script)
𑦰𑧉𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
𑐐𑐮𑑂 (Newa script)
ଗଲ୍ (Odia script)
ꢔꢭ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
𑆓𑆬𑇀 (Sharada script)
𑖐𑖩𑖿 (Siddham script)
ගල් (Sinhalese script)
𑩞𑩽 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
𑚌𑚥𑚶 (Takri script)
க³ல் (Tamil script)
గల్ (Telugu script)
คลฺ (Thai script)
ག་ལ྄ (Tibetan script)
𑒑𑒪𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
𑨍𑨬𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology[edit]

Likely from Proto-Indo-Aryan *gál, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gál, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“to drip, dribble, ooze, flow”). Cognate with Albanian gëloj, Old High German quellan (“to well up, to pour out”), Old English cwylla (“spring, source”) (whence English quell).

Pronunciation[edit]

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡɐl/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡɐl̪/

Root[edit]

गल् • (gal)

to drip, drop, ooze, trickle, distill
to fall down or off
to vanish, perish, pass away
(of a liquid) to drop
to cause to drop, filter, strain
to cause (the water of a dropsical person) to go off
to fuse, liquefy, dissolve, melt
causing to drop from one's body

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

Monier Williams (1899) “गल्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 350/3.
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 35
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 476-477

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