स्फुटति

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. 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.

Pronunciation

Verb

स्फुटति (sphuṭati) (root स्फुट्, class 6, type P)

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

References

  • Monier Williams (1899), स्फुटति”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1269.
  • Otto Böhtlingk; Richard Schmidt (1879-1928), स्फुटति”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893), स्फुटति”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
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