कुशल

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कुशल (kúśala).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /kʊ.ʃəl/,

कुशल • (kuśal) (indeclinable)

1. skilled, experienced
2. prosperous; healthy, well; good

   Synonym: ख़ुशहाल (xuśhāl)

   मैं अमेरिका आके कुशल बन गया हूँ।

   ma͠i amerikā āke kuśal ban gayā hū̃.

   I have come to America and prospered.

कुशल • (kuśal) m or f

1. (good) health; well-being
2. fortune, luck

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कुशल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 208

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit kúśala.

• IPA^(key):
• Phonetic Devanagari: कुसल्

कुशल • (kuśal)

1. prosperous, healthy, well, good

कुशल • (kuśal) m

1. a male given name, Kushal, from Sanskrit

Uncertain. Traditionally derived, per Tedesco, from a metathesis of a hypothetical form *सुकळ (*sukaḷa), a dissimilation of सुकृत (sukṛta, “virtue, favor; well-formed”) (itself from सु- (su-, “well-, eu-”) +‎ कृत (kṛta, “done, made”)), with shift of *स् (*s) > श् (ś) via influence from Magadhi dialects.

However, as Mayrhofer later notes, this is very phonetically bold to the point where he dubs the theory "sound acrobatics". Instead, he tentatively supports a different theory by Wust, which invokes a phrase from the Gṛhyasūtras, कुशली-कर् (kuśalī-kar, “to shear”, literally “to make (trim) like the plant Oxalis corniculata”), as a starting point for the word. The act of shearing hair is ritually performed twice for a Brahmin boy, and is thus a marker of welfare and virtue. The word कुशल (kuśala) is thus abstracted from the phrase, ultimately deriving from कुश (kuśá, “sacred grass”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kú.ɕɐ.lɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ku.ɕɐ.l̪ɐ/

कुशल • (kúśala) stem

1. right, proper, suitable, good
2. well, healthy, in good condition, prosperous
3. fit for, competent, able, skilful, clever, conversant with

• कुशलेन (kuśalena)
• कौशल (kauśala)

• Gandhari: 𐨐𐨂𐨭𐨫 (kuśala)
• → Hindi: कुशल (kuśal) (learned)
• → Indonesian: kusala (learned)
• → Nepali: कुशल (kuśal) (learned)
• Pali: kusala
• Prakrit: 𑀓𑀼𑀲𑀮 (kusala)
  • Hindi: कुसल (kusal)
• → Tocharian B: kuśal (learned)

कुशल • (kúśala) stem, n

1. welfare, well-being, prosperous condition, happiness
2. benevolence
3. virtue
4. cleverness, competence, ability
5. religious merit

• → Khmer: កុសល (kosɑl)
• Pali: kusala
• → Thai: กุศล (gù-sǒn)

• Monier Williams (1899) “कुशल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 297, column 2.