भूतल

Borrowed from Sanskrit भूतल (bhūtala). By surface analysis, tatpuruṣa compound of भू (bhū) +‎ तल (tal).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bʱuː.t̪əl/,

भूतल • (bhūtal) m (Urdu spelling بُھوتَل)

1. ground, floor, surface of the Earth

• धरती (dhartī)
• ज़मीन (zamīn)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “भू”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 771
• “भूतल”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

Tatpuruṣa compound of भू (bhū, “earth, ground”) +‎ तल (tala, “base, floor, lower part”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /bʱuː.tɐ.lɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈbʱuː.t̪ɐ.l̪ɐ/

भूतल • (bhūtala) stem, n

1. floor, ground, surface of the ground
   • Ādi Śaṅkara, Mohamudgara 19:

     सुरमन्दिरतरुमूलनिवासः शय्या भूतलम् अजिनं वासः ।
     सर्वपरिग्रहभोगत्यागः कस्य सुखं न करोति विरागः ॥

     suramandiratarumūlanivāsaḥ śayyā bhūtalam ajinaṃ vāsaḥ.
     sarvaparigrahabhogatyāgaḥ kasya sukhaṃ na karoti virāgaḥ.

     Whose residence is in a temple or at the foot of a tree, whose bed is the earth's surface, whose clothes are deerskin, who has given up all possessions and enjoyments; how may detachment fail to make him content.

• → Hindi: भूतल (bhūtal)
• → Malay: bentala (learned)
  • Indonesian: bentala

• Monier Williams (1899) “भूतल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 761.
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “भूतल”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 208