Friday, May 29, 2009

मैला میلا ♣ Eng. melanin, melancholy

मैला میلا ♣ Eng. melanin, melancholy

[mɛ̵lā], adj. dirty, unclean.

[◀MIA: Pk. maïla- ‘dirty’ ◀OIA *malin- ‘dirty’ <mála- n. ‘dirt’ AV. ◀PIE *mel-, melǝ- ‘of a darkish color, soiled, dirty’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. melanin, Melanesian, mullet, melancholy ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 1107; (Turner, 1966) 9904, 9899; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 524; (MW, 1899) 0792; (Pokorny, 1959) 0720; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.332

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