Sunday, December 13, 2009

निर्बल نِربَل ♣ Eng. nirvana + Bolshevik

निर्बल نِربَل ♣ Eng. nirvana + Bolshevik

[nir-bal], adj. weak, powerless, feeble.

[←OIA nirbala- ‘weak’ Hit. <+②nis- prep. or prefix, ‘out, forth, away from, without, dis-, -less’ (♣Eng. nirvana ) <bála- n. ‘power, strength’ RV. ◀PIE *bel- ‘strong’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. Bolshevik ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 1129, ② 1136; (Turner, 1966) 7356, 9161; (MW, 1899) 0541, 0722, ② 0543; (Pokorny, 1959) 0096; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.215, ② 2.047

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