गल्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

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

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

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

Root

गल् • (gal)

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

Derived terms

• गलति (galati)
• गालयति (gālayati)
• जल्गल्यमान (jalgalyamāna)

References

• 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