सरल

Borrowed from Sanskrit सरल (sarala).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /sə.ɾəl/,

सरल • (saral) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling سرل)

1. easy

   Synonyms: आसान (āsān), सुगम (sugam), सहज (sahaj)

   Antonyms: कठिन (kaṭhin), मुश्किल (muśkil), दुर्गम (durgam)

2. simple, straightforward

   हिंदी भाषा का व्याकरण सरल है।

   hindī bhāṣā kā vyākraṇ saral hai.

   The grammar of Hindi is simple.

3. straight

   Synonym: सीधा (sīdhā)

   रेत में उसने एक सरल रेखा बनाई।

   ret mẽ usne ek saral rekhā banāī.

   He made a straight line in the sand.

• सरलता (saraltā, “simplicity”)
  • सरलतापूर्वक (saraltāpūrvak)
• सरलीकरण (sarlīkraṇ, “simplification”)
• सरल भाषा (saral bhāṣā, “plain language”)

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “सरल”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “सरल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “सरल”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

Probably from सृ (sṛ, “to run, go towards”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sɐ.ɾɐ.lɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ɐ.ɾɐ.l̪ɐ/

सरल • (sarala) stem

1. running on, straight (not crooked)
2. outstretched
3. right, correct
4. upright, sincere, candid, honest, artless, simple
5. real (not "sham")
6. Synonym of विगीत (vigīta) L.

सरल • (sarala) stem, m

1. a species of pine tree, Pinus roxburghii
2. a kind of bird, the grey peacock-pheasant (Pavo bicalcaratus L., now Polyplectron bicalcaratum)
3. fire
4. a Buddha
5. turpeth (Operculina turpethum L.)
6. name of a river

सरल • (sarala) stem, n

1. resin of the pine
2. a particular high number

• Monier Williams (1899) “सरल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1182, column 2.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 506
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 443