स्थल

Borrowed from Sanskrit स्थल (sthala).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /st̪ʰəl/,
• Rhymes: -əl

स्थल • (sthal) m

1. land, ground; place

   Synonyms: ज़मीन (zamīn), भूमि (bhūmi)

2. dry land, parched soil

   स्थल में मीलों तक पानी नहीं मिलता है।

   sthal mẽ mīlõ tak pānī nahī̃ miltā hai.

   Water is not to be found for miles in arid land.

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- or *stel-. However, Mayrhofer considers this semantically unconvincing, and prefers to link the word to Proto-Indo-European *sterh₁- (“to be stiff”), whence German starr (“rigid”). The root स्थल् (sthal, “to stand, to be firm”) is probably a back-formation from the noun.

स्थल • (sthala) stem, n

1. dry land (opp. to damp low-land), firm earth (opp. to water)
2. ground, soil, place, spot
3. a flat surface, roof (of a palace)
4. situation, circumstance, case

   तथाविध-स्थले ― tathāvidha-sthale ― in such a case

5. topic, subject
6. text

• स्थली (sthalī)
• स्थला (sthalā, “a heap of artificially raised earth, mound”)

• → Gujarati: સ્થળ (sthaḷ)
• → Hindi: स्थल (sthal)
• → Marathi: स्थळ (sthaḷ​)
• → Malayalam: സ്ഥലം (sthalaṁ), തളം (taḷaṁ) — tadbhava
• → Tamil: தலம் (talam), ஸ்தலம் (stalam) — tatsama
• → Telugu: స్థలము (sthalamu)

स्थल • (sthala) stem, m

1. chapter, section (of a book)
2. name of a son of बल (bala)

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्थल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 1261/3, 1262/1.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 764
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 525