मल مَل ♣ Eng. melanin, melancholy
[mal], m. dirt, excrement.
[◀MIA: Pk. mala- m.n. ‘dirt’, m. ‘sweat’; Pa. mala- n. ‘dirt’ ◀OIA mála- n. ‘dirt’ AV., ‘excretion’ Suśr. ◀PIE *mel-, melǝ- ‘of a darkish color, soiled, dirty’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. melanin, Melanesian, mullet, melancholy ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 1061; (Turner, 1966) 9899; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 524; (MW, 1899) 0792; (Pokorny, 1959) 0720; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.332
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