पँखड़ी پَنکھڑی ♣ Eng. fight, peculiar

पँखड़ी پَنکھڑی ♣ Eng. fight, peculiar

[pankʰṛī], f. a petal.

[◀MIA: Pk. pamha-, pomha- m.n. ‘eyelash, lotus filament, fine down’, pamhaya- n. ‘a kind of thread’; Pa. pakhuma-, pamha- n. ‘eyelash’ ◀OIA pákṣman- n. (sg. and pl.) ‘eyelashes’ TS., ‘hair of a deer, filament of a flower’ Śiś., ‘petal of a flower’ Kād., ‘a thin thread’ lex. ◀PIE *pek̂- ‘to fleece; cattle’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. fight ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. fee, fellow, peculiar ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0274; (Turner, 1966) 7627; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 381; (MW, 1899) 0574; (Pokorny, 1959) 0797; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.062