पक्का پکّا ♣ Eng. cook, cuisine

पक्का پکّا ♣ Eng. cook, cuisine

[pakkā], adj. cooked, ripe, solid, strong, firm, permanent, ready, matured, paved.

[◀MIA: Pk. Pa. pakka- ‘ripe, cooked’ ◀OIA pakvá- ‘cooked, ripe’ RV., pakvaká- AV., pakvá- n. ‘cooked food’ RV., ‘ripe corn’ AV. <√pac ‘cook’ ◀PIE *pekʷ- ‘to cook, to bake; to ripen’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. cook, cuisine, kitchen, biscuit, pumpkin ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0265; (Turner, 1966) 7621, p.431; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 380; (MW, 1899) 0575; (Pokorny, 1959) 0798; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.062, 2.064