बल بل ♣ Eng. walk, vulva

बल بل ♣ Eng. walk, vulva

[bal], m. a twist, curve, wrinkle.

[◀MIA: Pk. Pa. valĭ̄- f. ‘line, fold, wrinkle’ ◀OIA váli- f. (once m.), valī- f. ‘fold of skin’ MBh. <√val ‘turn, cover’ ◀PIE *u̯el-, u̯elǝ-, u̯lē- ‘to turn, revolve, wind, bend, twist, roll; round, etc.’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. walk, willow ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. waltz, vulva, volume, valve ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0163; (Turner, 1966) 11412, p.665; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 603; (MW, 1899) 0927; (Pokorny, 1959) 1140; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.525, 2.512