The corpus record — Sanskrit

śabala

Adj

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Where it lives

Chandogya Upanisad 5 · 1.07/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. sabäla-

sabäla- Adj. scheckig, bunt (RV {10,14,10] +); sabalı- f. scheckige Kuh, Wunderkuh (Käth, TS +; AiGr 11 2, 374, 391, III 174). - Pi. pkt. sabala- gefleckt, scheckig, u.a. (Tu 12297). - Nicht klar. Nach Vasmer I 685 „Iwlohl urverwilandt].“ mit slav. Wörtern für -Zobel’ (russ. sobols, tech. sobol u.a}; dazu KEWA 111 297. - Da \ı an seiner RV-Belegstelle die Hunde bezeichnet, an denen vorbei man zu den Vätern gelangt, … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. sabäla-, p. 637]

2. śabala

śabala mf(ā, or ī)n. (also written śavala; cf. śabara above) variegated, brindled, dappled, spotted (in RV. x, 14, 10 applied to the two four-eyed watch-dogs of Yama ), RV. &c. &c.

3. śabala

variegated by i.e. mixed or provided or filled with ( instr. or comp. ), Kāv. ; Sarvad.

4. سَبَلَ

sabala (sa), mfn. powerful, strong, RV. &c. &c.

In the wild

Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.