वाल

वाल m

1. Devanagari script form of vāla (“hair”)

वाल

1. Devanagari script form of vāla (“malicious”)

• बाल (bāla), वार (vā́ra) — Vedic

Uncertain; possibly cognate with Lithuanian valaĩ (“hair of the tail”), if so from Proto-Indo-European *ul (“the tail”), Cognate with Latin *ulos (“tail”) (attested in adūlor), presumably from Proto-Indo-Aryan *wālás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wālás, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn”).^[1] Further suggested to be related to Latin adūlor. Possibly of Austroasiatic origin according to Przyluski, compare Vietnamese vải (“cotton”), Lao ຝ້າຍ (fāi, “cotton”) (a borrowing from Vietic). However the proper Proto-Austronesian root is *k-rn-pas, whence Sanskrit कर्पास (through Munda), so this hypothesis is untenable.

• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑː.l̪ɐ/

वाल • (vāla) stem, m

1. the tail of an animal
2. the hair of the tail
3. any hair of an animal
4. bristles

• Magadhi Prakrit:
  • Assamese: বাল (bal, “pubic hair”)
  • Bengali: বাল (bal, “pubic hair”)
  • Bhojpuri: 𑂥𑂰𑂩 (pubic hair, hair)
  • Magahi: 𑂥𑂰𑂩 (bār)
• Dhivehi: ބޯ, ބޮލު (bō, bolu, “head or hair”)
• Gujarati: વાળ (vāḷ, “hair”)
• Hindi: बाल (bāl, “hair”)
• Kashmiri: وال (vāl, “hair”)
• Pali: vāla (“tail, tail hair”)
  • → Khmer: វាល (viəlĕəʼ, “hair”)
  • → Thai: พาล (paan, “body hair”)
• Punjabi: (“hair”) وال (vāl) / ਵਾਲ (vāl)
• Romani: bal (“hair”)
• Saraiki: وال (vāl, “hair”)
• Urdu: بال (bāl)
• →? Kannada: ಬಾಲ (bāla, “tail”) (probably)
• → Tamil: வால் (vāl)