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

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]‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 476-477
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