पद्म

Borrowed from Sanskrit पद्म (padma).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pəd̪.mᵊ/,

पद्म • (padma) m (Urdu spelling پدم)

1. (formal) lotus

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:कमल

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

Of uncertain origin. Possibly related to Proto-Indo-Iranian *ni-pad- (“to lie down, sleep”) (compare Middle Persian (npdm /nibēm/, “prostrate”)), from *ní (“down, in”) + *pád (“to go, fall”), akin to the way a lotus flower folds up and closes at night. A substrate borrowing is also possible.^[1]

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɐd.mɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐd̪.mɐ/

पद्म • (padma) stem, m or n

1. lotus

   Synonym: अरविन्द (aravinda)

• Pali: paduma
• Bengali: পদ্ম (podmo)
• → Punjabi: ਪਦਮ (padam)
• → Tamil: பத்மம் (patmam), பதுமம் (patumam)
• → Tibetan: པད་མ (pad ma)

पद्म • (padma) stem

1. lotus-coloured

• Monier Williams (1899) “पद्म”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0584/2.