कपोल

Hindi

Etymology

    Borrowed from Sanskrit कपोल (kapola).

    Pronunciation

    • (Delhi) IPA(key): /kə.poːl/, [kɐ.poːl]

    Noun

    कपोल • (kapolm

    1. (anatomy) cheek
      Synonyms: गाल (gāl), रुख़सार (ruxsār)

    Declension

    Declension of कपोल (masc cons-stem)
    singular plural
    direct कपोल
    kapol
    कपोल
    kapol
    oblique कपोल
    kapol
    कपोलों
    kapolõ
    vocative कपोल
    kapol
    कपोलो
    kapolo

    Further reading

    Old Awadhi

    Noun

    कपोल (kapola)

    1. Devanagari script form of 𑂍𑂣𑂷𑂪 (cheek)
      • c. 1500s CE, Tulsīdās, Rāmacaritamānasa:
        सरद मयंक बदन छबि सींवा ।
        चारु कपोल चिबुक दर ग्रीवा ॥
        sarada mayaṃka badana chabi sīṃvā.
        cāru kapola cibuka dara grīvā.
        The moon of the Sharad Purnima is the outline of the image of his face,
        Beautiful are his cheek and chin, and his neck is like the shankha.

    Pali

    Alternative forms

    Noun

    कपोल m

    1. Devanagari script form of kapola

    Declension

    Sanskrit

    Alternative scripts

    Etymology

      As a (1) trisyllabic noun with long medial vowel, and (2) noun prefixed with ka-, ki-, ku-, the lemma is characteristic, even prototypical, of proposed loanwords in Vedic from an unknown substrate, dubbed "language X" by Masica, and Proto-Munda by Witzel, expanding on observations by Pinnow and Mayrhofer. Claims of borrowing from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *kapVḷ, are described as 'possible', though dispreferred to the above, by Turner, and rejected implicitly by Mayrhofer, and explicitly and unequivocally by Witzel and Masica.

      Under the orthodox explanation, related to Old English hafela and Latin caput (head). Indo-European genesis is substantiated by collateral and related forms, including कर्पर (karpara), कूर्पर (kūrpara), कपाल (kapāla), कपल (kapala), कपोली (kapolī), and possibly कफोणि (kaphoṇi), कफौड (kaphauḍa), and कपाट (kapāṭa): the association, or at least homonymy, of terms for the knee and the cheek is exhibited in Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (cheek, jaw) and *ǵónu (knee), whence English chin and knee, respectively. The primary challenge is medial vowel length in the adduced Indic lemmas varying as a direct function of the presence of a liquid in the initial syllable, which may demonstrate either compensatory lengthening or shortening of the medial vowel depending on the ultimate origin.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      कपोल • (kapolá) stemm

      1. (anatomy) cheek
        Synonyms: see Thesaurus:गल्ल

      Declension

      Masculine a-stem declension of कपोल
      singular dual plural
      nominative कपोलः (kapoláḥ) कपोलौ (kapolaú)
      कपोला¹ (kapolā́¹)
      कपोलाः (kapolā́ḥ)
      कपोलासः¹ (kapolā́saḥ¹)
      accusative कपोलम् (kapolám) कपोलौ (kapolaú)
      कपोला¹ (kapolā́¹)
      कपोलान् (kapolā́n)
      instrumental कपोलेन (kapoléna) कपोलाभ्याम् (kapolā́bhyām) कपोलैः (kapolaíḥ)
      कपोलेभिः¹ (kapolébhiḥ¹)
      dative कपोलाय (kapolā́ya) कपोलाभ्याम् (kapolā́bhyām) कपोलेभ्यः (kapolébhyaḥ)
      ablative कपोलात् (kapolā́t) कपोलाभ्याम् (kapolā́bhyām) कपोलेभ्यः (kapolébhyaḥ)
      genitive कपोलस्य (kapolásya) कपोलयोः (kapoláyoḥ) कपोलानाम् (kapolā́nām)
      locative कपोले (kapolé) कपोलयोः (kapoláyoḥ) कपोलेषु (kapoléṣu)
      vocative कपोल (kápola) कपोलौ (kápolau)
      कपोला¹ (kápolā¹)
      कपोलाः (kápolāḥ)
      कपोलासः¹ (kápolāsaḥ¹)
      • ¹Vedic

      Descendants

      • Pali: kapola
      • Prakrit: 𑀓𑀯𑁄𑀮 (kavola)
        • Apabhramsa: kavola
          Devanagari script: कवोल
          Sharada script: 𑆑𑆮𑆾𑆬
      • Hindi: कपोल (kapol)
      • Telugu: కపోలము (kapōlamu)

      References


      Further reading

      • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “कपोल”, 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
      • Monier Williams (1899) “कपोल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 251, column 2.
      • Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “कपोल”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 532
      • Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 16.