पढ़ना پڑھنا ♣ Eng. field, plain
[paṛʰnā], v.t. to read, recite, study.
[◀MIA: Pk. paḍhaï ‘reads’; Pa. paṭhati ‘reads’ ◀OIA páṭhati ‘repeats aloud’ TĀr., ‘reads’ Mn. <√paṭh ‘recite, read’ <√prath ‘spread out’ ◀PIE *plā̆t- (plā̆d-), plē̆t-, plō̆t-, plǝt- ‘wide, flat, broad, plain; to spread out’ <*pelǝ-, plā- ‘wide, flat, broad, field, plain’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. field, floor ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. palm, plain, plane, planet, plastic ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0261; (Turner, 1966) 7712, p.435, p.488; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 402; (MW, 1899) 0580, 0678; (Pokorny, 1959) 0833, 0805; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.068, 2.178