कमल

• 𑆑𑆩𑆬 (kamala) — Kāśmīrī

Inherited from Prakrit कमल (kamala), from Sanskrit कमल (kamala).

कमल (kamala) n ^[1][2][3]

1. lotus

Borrowed from Sanskrit कमल (kamala).

कमल (kamal) m

1. lotus

Borrowed from Sanskrit कमल (kamala).

• IPA^(key): /kə.məl/

कमल (kamal) m

1. lotus
   • c. 1500, Surdas, Sursagar 1.1:

     चरन कमल बंदौं हरि राइ ।

     caran kamal banda͠u hari rāi .

     • Translation by Rupert Snell

       I salute the lotus feet of Hari, the king.

Hindi Wikipedia has an article on:

कमल

Wikipedia ^hi

Borrowed from Sanskrit कमल (kamala). Doublet of कँवल (kãval).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kə.məl/,

कमल • (kamal) m (Urdu spelling کَمَل)

1. Nelumbo nucifera; lotus

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:कमल

• → English: Kamal

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कमल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Inherited from Gurjara Apabhramsa कमल (kamala), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑀫𑀮 (kamala), from Sanskrit कमल (kamala), from Dravidian.^[1]

कमल • (kamala) n

1. lotus

• Middle Gujarati: कमल (kamala)^[2]
  • Gujarati: કમળ (kamaḷ)
• Marwari:

  Devanagari script: कंवल (kamval)

  Mahajani script: 𑅕𑅧𑅯𑅮 (knvl /⁠kamval⁠/)

कमल n

1. Devanagari script form of kamala (“lotus”)

कमल (kamala) n

1. Devanagari script form of 𑀓𑀫𑀮 (“lotus”)
   • c. 1000 – 1100, Abdur Rahman, Sandeśa-Rāsaka 4:^[1]

     तह तणओ कुल-कमलो पाइय-कव्वेसु गीय-विसयेसु ।
     अद्दहमाण-पसिद्धो संनेहयरासयं रइयं ॥ ४ ॥

     taha taṇao kula-kamalo pāiya-kavvesu gīya-visayesu .
     addahamāṇa-pasiddho saṃnehayarāsayaṃ raïyaṃ . 4 .

     4.^[2] son, who was like a lotus to his family, was famously known as Addahamāṇa for his Prakrit poems and musical compositions.
     He has composed this Sandeśarāsaka.

Sanskrit Wikipedia has an article on:

कमलम्

Wikipedia ^sa

Borrowed from Dravidian; compare Kannada ಕೊಮಳೆ (komaḷe, “lotus”).^[3][4][5] Related to कुवलय (kuvalaya, “water lily”), borrowed from a different Dravidian form of the same root; compare Tamil குவளை (kuvaḷai, “blue lotus”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ.mɐ.lɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /kɐ.mɐ.l̪ɐ/

कमल • (kamala) stem, m or n

1. a lotus, lotus flower (especially the species Nelumbo nucifera)

Uncertain. Maybe derived from the noun sense “lotus”, but Mayrhofer considers this to be unlikely.^[4]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ.mɐ.lɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /kɐ.mɐ.l̪ɐ/

कमल • (kamalá) stem

1. pale red, rose colored

Mayrhofer (1992)'s accentuation of the adjective meaning “pale red”: kamalá-, is the one found in the texts. Monier Williams, Otto Böhtlingk, and Mayrhofer (1956)'s version kámala- is wrong.

If the meaning is correct, from कम् (kam, “to desire, love”).^[6]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɐ.mɐ́.lɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /kɐ.mɐ.l̪ɐ/

कमल • (kamála) stem

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: desirous, lustful

• Monier Williams (1899) “कमल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0252.
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “कमल”, 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
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kamala²”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “kamala”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.