ढल

Sanskrit

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɖʱɐ.lɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɖʱɐ.l̪ɐ/

Noun

ढल • (ḍhala) stem, ?

1. shield

Descendants

• Assamese: ঢাল (dhal)
• Bengali: ঢাল (ḍhal)
• Gujarati: ઢાલ (ḍhāl)
• Hindustani: ḍhāl
  • Hindi: ढाल
  • Urdu: ڈھال
• Kumaoni: ढाल (ḍhāl), ढाव (ḍhāw)
• Maithili: ढाल (ḍhāl)
• Marathi: ढाल (ḍhāl)
• Nepali: ढाल (ḍhāl)
• Odia: ଢାଳ (ḍhāḷa)
• Punjabi: ḍhāl

  Gurmukhi script: ਢਾਲ

  Shahmukhi script: ڈھال

• Sindhi: ḍhāla

  Arabic script: ڍال

  Devanagari script: ढाल

References

• Apte, Macdonell (2022) “ढल”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ḍhala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press