See also: फल and फलति

Sanskrit edit

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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Invented as a source for फल (phala, fruit).

Root edit

फल् (phal)

  1. to obtain (fruit or reward)
  2. to bring to maturity, fulfil, yield, grant, bestow
  3. to bear or produce fruit, ripen
  4. be fruitful, have results or consequences, be fulfilled, result, succeed
  5. to give out, emit

Etymology 2 edit

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)bʰel- (to swell); see Etymology 1 for more.

Root edit

फल् (phal)

  1. to burst, cleave open or asunder, split
  2. to rebound, be reflected
  3. to fall to the share of

References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “फल्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 716/2.
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 105
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 201-2
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1963) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 393-4