पड़ना پڑنا ♣ Eng. feather, pen

पड़ना پڑنا ♣ Eng. feather, pen

[paṛnā], v.i. to fall, befall, lie, happen, to be compelled to, have to.

[◀MIA: Pk. paḍaï ‘falls’; Pa. patati ‘alights, falls’ ◀OIA pátati ‘flies’ RV., ‘falls’ Mn. <√pat ‘fly, fall’ ◀PIE *pet-, petǝ- : ptē-, ptō- ‘to fall; to fly’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. feather ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. petition, pen, pin ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0261; (Turner, 1966) 7722, p.435; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 405; (MW, 1899) 0580; (Pokorny, 1959) 0825; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.071