क्षल्

Sanskrit

Etymology

Probably a variant of (or at least influenced by) क्षर् (kṣar), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *gẓʰar-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gžʰar-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰer-. If not that, then from Proto-Indo-European *kʷsel-, whence Old Norse skola (“to wash”).

Root

क्षल् • (kṣal)

1. to wash, wash off
2. to purify, cleanse, clean
3. Synonym of क्षर् (kṣar)

Derived terms

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root क्षल्‎ (0 c, 5 e)

Primary Verbal Forms

• क्षालयति (kṣāláyati, Present)

Non-Finite Forms

• क्षालनीय (kṣālanīya, Gerundive)
• क्षालितव्य (kṣālitavyá, Gerundive)
• क्षालित (kṣālitá, Past Participle)

Derived Nominal Forms

• क्षाल (kṣā́la)
• क्षालन (kṣā́lana)

Prefixed Root Forms

• प्रक्षल् (prakṣal)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “क्षल्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 327.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 28