स्फुटति

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)pʰel- or *(s)pel- (“to split”) with a *-t- extension. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, “to cleave, split”), Old English speld (“splinter”), English split.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /spʰu.ʈɐ.ti/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪pʰu.ʈɐ.t̪i/

स्फुटति • (sphuṭati) third-singular indicative (class 6, type P, root स्फुट्)

1. to burst, explode; to burst or split open (with a sound), to be rent asunder
   • c. 700 BCE, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa
2. to expand, bloom, blossom
3. (of fire) to crackle

• स्फोटयति (sphoṭayati)
• स्फोट (sphoṭa)
• विस्फोट (visphoṭa)

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