मण्डल

मण्डल n

1. circle
2. disc
3. round platform
4. circus ring
5. round flat surface

Borrowed from substrate language. Compare Nihali मौड्ढारी (moḍḍhārī, “triangle”), for the "triangle" sense in the Caturvargacintāmaṇi.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /mɐɳ.ɖɐ.lɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmɐɳ.ɖɐ.l̪ɐ/

मण्डल • (maṇḍala) stem

1. circular, round

मण्डल • (maṇḍala) stem, n

1. (rarely m) disk (especially of the sun or moon)
2. anything round (but in Hemādri's Caturvarga-cintāmaṇi also applied to anything triangular; compare मण्डलक (maṇḍalaka))
3. circle (in instrumental: “in a circle”; also “the charmed circle of a conjuror”), globe, orb, ring, circumference, ball, wheel
4. the path or orbit of a heavenly body
5. a halo round the sun or moon
6. a ball used for playing
7. (surgery) circular bandage
8. (also in plural) a sort of cutaneous eruption or leprosy with circular spot
9. round mole or mark (caused by a finger-nail etc.) on the body
10. circular array of troops
11. a particular attitude in shooting
12. district, arrondissement, territory, province, country (often at the end of modern names e.g. Coro-mandal coast)
13. a surrounding district or neighbouring state, the circle of a king's near and distant neighbours (with whom he must maintain political and diplomatic relations ; 4 or 6 or 10 or even 12 such neighbouring princes are enumerated)
14. a multitude, group, band, collection, whole body, society, company
15. mandala (division of the book of the Rigveda)
16. unguis odoratus, onycha
17. a particular oblation or sacrifice

• मण्डलिन् (maṇḍalin, “chief, leader”, literally “possessor of the territory”) (compounded with -इन् (-in, possessive suffix))
  • Pali: maṇḍalin
  • Prakrit: 𑀫𑀁𑀟𑀮𑀺 (maṃḍali)
    • Bengali: মোড়ল (mōṛol, “chief of a village”)

• Pali: maṇḍala
• Dardic:
  • Kalasha: māṇḍal (“coffin”), māṇḍau
  • Kashmiri: manḍul (“circle”)

    Devanagari script: मन्डुल

    Arabic script: مانڈل

• Prakrit: 𑀫𑀀𑀟𑀮 (mam̐ḍala), 𑀫𑀁𑀟𑀮𑀻 (maṃḍalī)
  • Central:
    • Shauraseni Prakrit:
      • Hindustani: mãḍal, mãḍlī

        Hindi: मंडल, मंडली

        Urdu: مَںڈَل, مَںڈلِی

      • Old Gujarati: मांदलिइं (māṃdaliiṃ)
      • Romani: mandal (“village”)
  • Eastern:
    • Magadhi Prakrit:
      • Assamese: মাৰল (marol)
      • Odia: ମଣ୍ଡଳ (môṇḍôḷô), ମୁଣ୍ଡୁଳା (muṇḍuḷa), ମୁଣ୍ଡୁଳୀ (muṇḍuḷi)
      • Bihari:
        • Maithili: maṛᵃrā, mā̃ṛᵊrɨ, maṛro

          Devanagari script: मड़रा, माँड़रि, मड़्रो

          Tirhuta script: 𑒧𑒛𑓃𑒩𑒰, 𑒧𑒰𑒿𑒛𑓃𑒩, 𑒧𑒛𑓃𑓂𑒩𑒽

  • Northern:
    • Khasa Prakrit:
      • Nepali: मडेउलि (maḍeuli)
  • Southern:
    • Elu Prakrit:
      • Dhivehi: މަޑުލު (maḍulu), މަޑުލަ (maḍula)
      • Sinhalese: මඩුල්ල (maḍulla), මැඩිල්ල (mæḍilla)
    • Maharashtra Prakrit:
      • Marathi: mãḍaḷ, mā̃ḍaḷ

        Devanagari script: मंडळ (maṇḍaḷ), मांडळ (māṇḍaḷ)

        Modi script: 𑘦𑘽𑘚𑘯 (maṇḍaḷ), 𑘦𑘰𑘽𑘚𑘯 (māṇḍaḷ)

  • Western:
    • Paisaci Prakrit:
      • Punjabi: maṇḍal (“circle, orb”), maṇḍlī (“assembly”)

        Gurmukhi script: ਮੰਡਲ, ਮੰਡਲੀ

        Shahmukhi script: مَݨڈَل, مَݨڈلِی

        • Lahnda: منلا (mannlā, “lid of a churn”)
• → Bengali: মণ্ডল (monḍol)
• → Hindi: मंडल (maṇḍal)
• → Punjabi: ਮੰਡਲ (maṇḍal)
• → Tamil: மண்டலம் (maṇṭalam)
• → Thai: มณฑล (mon-ton)

मण्डल • (maṇḍala) stem, m

1. dog
2. a kind of snake
3. Tinospora cordifolia (syns. Chasmanthera cordifolia, Cocculus cordifolius)

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mandala”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 559
• Monier Williams (1899) “मण्डल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0775.