# दल
## Hindi
### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit दल (dála).

### Pronunciation

* (Delhi) IPA: /d̪əl/, [d̪ɐl]
* Rhymes: -əl

### Noun

दल • (dal) m (Urdu spelling دل)
* group, team
    हमारे दल में दरार पड़ गई है।hamāre dal mẽ darār paṛ gaī hai.A rift has occurred in our group.
* party
    इस बरस में, उदार दल अल्पमत में है।is baras mẽ, udār dal alpamat mẽ hai.This year, the Liberal Party is in the minority.
    पर्वतारोही दल लापता हो गया है।parvatārohī dal lāptā ho gayā hai.The mountaineering party has gone missing.

#### Synonyms

* (group): झुंड (jhuṇḍ)

#### References

* Bahri, Hardev (1989) “दल”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons.
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) “571”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 571

## Sanskrit
### Alternative scripts

* দল (Assamese script)
* ᬤᬮ (Balinese script)
* দল (Bengali script)
* 𑰟𑰩 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀤𑀮 (Brahmi script)
* ဒလ (Burmese script)
* દલ (Gujarati script)
* ਦਲ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌦𑌲 (Grantha script)
* ꦢꦭ (Javanese script)
* 𑂠𑂪 (Kaithi script)
* ದಲ (Kannada script)
* ទល (Khmer script)
* ທລ (Lao script)
* ദല (Malayalam script)
* ᡩᠠᠯᠠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘟𑘩 (Modi script)
* ᢑᠠᠯᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
* 𑦿𑧉 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐡𑐮 (Newa script)
* ଦଲ (Odia script)
* ꢣꢭ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆢𑆬 (Sharada script)
* 𑖟𑖩 (Siddham script)
* දල (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩭𑩽 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚛𑚥 (Takri script)
* த³ல (Tamil script)
* దల (Telugu script)
* ทล (Thai script)
* ད་ལ (Tibetan script)
* 𑒠𑒪 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨛𑨬 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology

From the root दल् (dal, “to split”).

### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /dɐ.lɐ/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /ˈd̪ɐ.l̪ɐ/

### Noun

दल • (dála) stem, n
* a fragment, a piece split off
* part, a degree
* detachment
* dividing, splitting, division

#### Descendants

* Hindustani:
** Hindi: दल (dal)
** Urdu: دل
* Kashmiri:
** Arabic script: دَل (dal)
** Devanagari script: दल (dal)

### References

* Monier Williams (1899) “दल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0471.
* Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “दल”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
* William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 070
* Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “दल”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
* Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 372
* Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 114
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0194”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0194