[halkā], adj. light (in weight, color, texture, &c.), mild.
[< (metathesis) ◀MIA: Pk. lahu-, °ua- ‘light, small’; Pa. lahu- ‘light, quick’, °uka- ‘trifling’ ◀OIA laghú- ‘light’ AV., raghú- ‘fast, hastening, going speedily’ RV. <√raṁh ‘hasten’ ◀PIE *legʷh- ‘light (not heavy)’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. light, lung ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. leaven, lever ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 1232; (Turner, 1966) 10896, p.610; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 582; (MW, 1899) 0893, 0859; (Pokorny, 1959) 0660; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.423, 2.421
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