मल

Borrowed from Sanskrit मल (mála).

• IPA^(key): /məl/
• Rhymes: -əl

मल • (mal) m (Urdu spelling مل‎)

1. feces, excreta

   Synonym: विष्ठा (viṣṭhā)

• मलीय (malīya)

• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “मल”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons

मल n

1. impurity
2. stain
3. rust
4. dirt
5. dung

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *málas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *málas, from Proto-Indo-European *mélh₂-os, from *melh₂- (“black”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas), Old Prussian melne.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɐ́.l̪ɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐ.l̪ɐ/

मल • (mála)

1. dirty
2. niggardly?
3. unbelieving, godless

मल • (mála) n (also m in later language)

1. dirt, filth, dust, impurity (physical and moral)
2. (medicine) any bodily excretion or secretion (especially those of the dhatus, described as phlegm from chyle, bile from the blood, nose mucus and ear wax from the flesh, perspiration from the fat, nails and hair from the bones, rheum of the eye from the brain)
3. (with शैव (śaiva)), original sin, natural impurity
4. camphor

मल • (mála) m

1. the son of a Shudra and a Maluki

मल • (mála) n

1. tanned leather, a leathern or dirty garment
2. a kind of brass or bell-metal
3. the tip of a scorpion's tail