[patang], m.; f. a paper kite, flying insect.
[←OIA pataṅgá- ‘ep. of divine (flying) things’ RV., m. ‘bird’ lex.; patáṅga- m. ‘(noxious) insect’ Br̥ĀrUp.; pataṅga- m. ‘insect’ MBh., °gama- m. BhP., pataga- m. MBh. (‘bird’ lex.). <√pat ‘fly, fall’ ◀PIE *pet-, petǝ- : ptē-, ptō- ‘to fall ; to fly’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. feather ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. petition, pen, pin ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0225; (Turner, 1966) 7721, p.435; (MW, 1899) 0581, 0580; (Pokorny, 1959) 0825; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.072, 2.071
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