तुल्
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- ᬢᬸᬮ᭄ (Balinese script)
- তুল্ (Assamese script)
- তুল্ (Bengali script)
- 𑰝𑰲𑰩𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀢𑀼𑀮𑁆 (Brahmi script)
- 𑌤𑍁𑌲𑍍 (Grantha script)
- તુલ્ (Gujarati script)
- ਤੁਲੑ (Gurmukhi script)
- ꦠꦸꦭ꧀ (Javanese script)
- តុល៑ (Khmer script)
- ತುಲ್ (Kannada script)
- ຕຸລ຺ (Lao script)
- തുല് (Malayalam script)
- 𑘝𑘳𑘩𑘿 (Modi script)
- ᢐᠤᠯ (Mongolian script)
- ᢠᡠᠯ (Manchu script)
- တုလ် (Burmese script)
- 𑦽𑧔𑧉𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐟𑐸𑐮𑑂 (Newa script)
- ତୁଲ୍ (Oriya script)
- ꢡꢸꢭ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆠𑆶𑆬𑇀 (Sharada script)
- 𑖝𑖲𑖩𑖿 (Siddham script)
- තුල් (Sinhalese script)
- తుల్ (Telugu script)
- ตุลฺ (Thai script)
- ཏུ་ལ྄ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒞𑒳𑒪𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, undergo, endure”).
Cognate with Ancient Greek τᾰ́λαντον (tálanton, “balance, scale”) whence English talent, Latin tolerō (“bear, endure”) whence English tolerate. Further possible cognates include Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas, “the 'bearer' of heaven”) and therefore Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís).
Pronunciation
- (Vedic) IPA(key): /tul/
- (Classical) IPA(key): /t̪ul̪/
Root
तुल् • (tul)
- to lift up, raise
- to determine the weight of something by lifting it up
- to compare by weighing
- to make equal in weight, compare
Derived terms
- तुल्य (tulya, “to be weighted, comparable”)
References
- Monier Williams (1899), “तुल्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0451.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), “तुल्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 064
- Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), “तुल्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
- Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 405
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1060