વાદળ

From Sanskrit वार्दल (vārdala) (compare Hindi बादल (bādal), Marathi वादळ (vādaḷ) and Bengali বাদল (badol)), from वार्द (vārda, “water-giving; rain cloud”), a compound of वार् (vār, “water”) + द (da, “giving”); the first element is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *waHr- (“water; rain”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer ~ *weh₁r- (“water, rain, flow”). Cognate with Persian باران‎ (“rain”), بارش‎ (whence Hindi बारिश (bāriś)), Ossetian уарын (waryn, “rain”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭‎ (var, “rain”), Luwian 𒉿𒀀𒅈 (wār, “water”), Old Norse vari (“liquid, water”), Latvian jūra (“sea”), and Latin ūrīna (whence English urine), Avara.

વાદળ • (vādaḷ) n

1. cloud
2. (by extension) sky, heavens

• Monier Williams (1899), “વાદળ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 943.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “vārdala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press