सलिल

From Sanskrit सलिल (salila).

सलिल (salil) m

1. water

Borrowed from Sanskrit सलिल (salila).

सलिल • (salil) n

1. water

   Synonyms: पाणी (pāṇī), जल (jal), उदक (udak)

Probably from an extension of Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”); compare Ancient Greek ᾰ̔́λς (hắls, “sea; salt”).^[1]

A folk etymology explains the word as स- (sa-, “with”) +‎ लीला (līlā, “playfulness”), literally “the playful one”, which would refer to the erratic motion of waves on the water surface. However, this does not explain the short इ (i) sound.

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

सलिल • (salila) stem

1. flowing, surging, fluctuating, unsteady

सलिल • (salila) stem, n

1. flood, surge, waves
2. (also plural) water

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:जल

3. rainwater, rain
4. eyewater, tears
5. a particularly high number
6. a kind of meter

• → Awadhi: सलिल (salil) (learned)
• → Bengali: সলিল (śolil) (learned)
• → Marathi: सलिल (salil) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “सलिल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1189/3.
• Apte, Macdonell (2022) “सलिल”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]