Word history
Monier-Williams (1899) records śukla with the sense “bright, white”. Śukla is an adjective of light and colour. The dictionary distinguishes its bright or light sense from its white or whitish sense. These are lexical descriptions, not personal qualities promised by a surname. The spelling शुक्ला includes the final long vowel found in the surname form. The Sanskrit stem has a final short vowel. The surname form differs at that ending.
Sources: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword śukla, page 1080, column 2, entry L219024 · Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword śukla, page 1080, column 2, entry L219025
Literal dictionary sense
śukla: Bright.
Native-script forms
Spelling variants
Shukl, Shukal.
Related words and meanings
Sources and attribution
- Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword śukla, page 1080, column 2, entry L219024
- Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899) · headword śukla, page 1080, column 2, entry L219025
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