स्फट्

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)pʰel- or *(s)pel- (to split) with a *-t- extension. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic рас-плитати (ras-plitati, to cleave, split), Old English speld (splinter), English split.

Pronunciation

Root

स्फट् • (sphaṭ)

  1. to burst, expand, split

Derived terms

  • स्फटति (spháṭati)

References

  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्फट्”, 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
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “स्फट्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press