निराला نِرالا ♣ Eng. nirvana + oakum + slime
[nirālā], adj. strange, novel, peculiar, queer.
[◀MIA: Pk. ṇirālaa- ‘homeless, not staying in one place’; Pa. nirālaya- ‘homeless’ ◀OIA *nirālaya- ‘without resting-place’ <+③nis- prep. or prefix, ‘out, forth, away from, without, dis-, -less’ (♣Eng. nirvana ) <ālaya- m.n. ‘house, receptacle’ <ā- √ lī ‘to come close to, to settle down upon’ <+②ā- ‘near to, towards’ (♣Eng. oakum) <√lī ‘cling to’ ◀PIE *lei- ‘slimy; to glide, slip’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. lime, loam, slime ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. slight, slip ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 1128, ③ 1136; (Turner, 1966) 7277, p.643; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 370; (MW, 1899) 0154, ② 0126, ③ 0543; (Pokorny, 1959) 0662, ② 0280; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.474, ② 1.157, ③ 2.047
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