# शाल
## Hindi
### Pronunciation

* (Delhi) IPA: /ʃɑːl/, [ʃäːl]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit शाल (śāla).

#### Noun

शाल • (śāl) m (Urdu spelling شَال)
* sal tree (Shorea robusta)
* banded snakehead (Channa striata, syn. Ophiocephalus wrahl)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian شال (šāl). Doublet of साड़ी (sāṛī). Compare Bengali শাল (śal), Punjabi ਸ਼ਾਲ (śāl) / شال (śāl), Gujarati શાલ (śāl), Marathi शाल (śāl), Kannada ಶಾಲು (śālu), Telugu శాలువ (śāluva).

#### Noun

शाल • (śāl) f (Urdu spelling شَال)
* shawl, scarf
* veil

##### Descendants

* → French: châle
** → Catalan: xal
** → Franco-Provençal: ch·âle
** → Italian: scialle
*** → Greek: σάλι (sáli)
** → Polish: szal
** → Spanish: chal

### References

* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śāṭa$^1$”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

### Further reading

* Platts, John T. (1884) “शाल”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “शाल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

## Kashmiri
### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgāla).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃaːl/

### Noun

शाल • (śāl) m (Perso-Arabic شال)
* jackal

## Marathi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian شال (šāl). Doublet of साडी (sāḍī). Compare Gujarati શાલ (śāl), Hindustani شَال (śāl) / शाल (śāl), Kannada ಶಾಲು (śālu), Telugu శాలువ (śāluva), Punjabi ਸ਼ਾਲ (śāl) / شال (śāl).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɕal/

### Noun

शाल • (śāl) m
* shawl, scarf

### References

* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “śāṭa$^1$”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

### Further reading

* Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “शाल”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
* Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “शाल”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
* दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “शाल”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ).

## Sanskrit
### Alternative scripts

* শাল (Assamese script)
* ᬰᬵᬮ (Balinese script)
* শাল (Bengali script)
* 𑰫𑰯𑰩 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀰𑀸𑀮 (Brahmi script)
* ၐာလ (Burmese script)
* શાલ (Gujarati script)
* ਸ਼ਾਲ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌶𑌾𑌲 (Grantha script)
* ꦯꦴꦭ (Javanese script)
* 𑂬𑂰𑂪 (Kaithi script)
* ಶಾಲ (Kannada script)
* ឝាល (Khmer script)
* ຨາລ (Lao script)
* ശാല (Malayalam script)
* ᡧᠠ᠎᠊ᠠᠯᠠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘫𑘰𑘩 (Modi script)
* ᠱᠠᢗᠯᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
* 𑧋𑧑𑧉 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐱𑐵𑐮 (Newa script)
* ଶାଲ (Odia script)
* ꢯꢵꢭ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆯𑆳𑆬 (Sharada script)
* 𑖫𑖯𑖩 (Siddham script)
* ශාල (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩿𑩛𑩽 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚧𑚭𑚥 (Takri script)
* ஶால (Tamil script)
* శాల (Telugu script)
* ศาล (Thai script)
* ཤཱ་ལ (Tibetan script)
* 𑒬𑒰𑒪 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨮𑨊𑨬 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /ɕɑː.lɐ́/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /ˈɕɑː.l̪ɐ/

### Adjective

शाल • (śālá) stem
* being in a house

#### Declension
### Noun

शाल • (śālá) stem, m
* Shorea robusta or the sāla tree
* a kind of fish (Channa striata, syn. Ophiocephalus wrahl)
* any tree
    Synonyms: वृक्ष (vṛkṣa), तरु (taru)
* an enclosure, court, fence, rampart, wall
* Artocarpus lacucha

#### Declension
### References

* Monier Williams (1899) “शाल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1067.