स्फोट

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्फोट (sphoṭa). Doublet of फोड़ा (phoṛā).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /spʰoːʈ/

स्फोट • (sphoṭ) m (rare, formal)

1. bursting, explosion
2. a swelling, tumour, boil
3. crackling, crash, roar

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “स्फोट”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्फोट (sphoṭa). Doublet of फोड (phoḍ).

• IPA^(key): /spʰoʈ/

स्फोट • (sphoṭ) m

1. explosion

• स्फोटक (sphoṭak, “explosive”)

• Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983) “स्फोट”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857) “स्फोट”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shridhar Ganesh Vaze (1911) “स्फोट”, in The Aryabhusan School Dictionary, Poona: Arya-Bhushan Press
• दाते, यशवंत रामकृष्ण [Date, Yashwant Ramkrishna] (1932-1950) “स्फोट”, in महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश (mahārāṣṭra śabdakoś) (in Marathi), पुणे [Pune]: महाराष्ट्र कोशमंडळ (mahārāṣṭra kośmaṇḍaḷ)

From the root स्फुट् (sphuṭ), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)bʰel- (*bʰel- with s-mobile) 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.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /spʰɐw.ʈɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪pʰoː.ʈɐ/

स्फोट • (sphoṭa) stem, m

1. bursting, explosion
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
2. a swelling, tumour, boil
3. crackling, crash, roar
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
4. (philosophy) sound (conceived as eternal, indivisible, and creative)

• विस्फोट (visphoṭa)

• स्फुटति (sphuṭati)
• स्फोटयति (sphoṭayati)

• Pali: phoṭa
• Ashokan Prakrit:
  • Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀨𑁄𑀟 (phoḍa)^[1]
    • Konkani: फोड (phoḍ)
    • Marathi: फोड (phoḍ)
  • Khasa Prakrit:
    • Nepali: फोर (phor)
  • Sauraseni Prakrit:
    • Hindustani:

      Hindi: फोड़ा (phoṛā)

      Urdu: پھوڑا (phoṛā)

• → Kannada: ಸ್ಫೋಟ (sphōṭa)
• → Malayalam: സ്ഫോടനം (sphōṭanaṁ)
• → Hindi: स्फोट (sphoṭ) (learned)
• → Marathi: स्फोट (sphoṭ) (learned)

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्फोट”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1270.
• Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “स्फोट”, 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) “स्फोट”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
• 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 375
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 577
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “0986”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 0986