शूल

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱúh₃los, from *ḱeh₃- (“to sharpen”). Cognate with Latin cos, Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos) and English hone.

The Sanskrit root is शूल् (śūl).

Noun

शूल • (śū́la) m

  1. any sharp instrument or pointed dart, lance, pike, spear (esp. the trident of Shiva).
  2. a stake for impaling criminals.
  3. any sharp or acute pain (esp. that of colic or gout).
  4. pain, grief, sorrow.

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1086
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