नकुल

Borrowed from Sanskrit नकुल (nakula). Doublet of नेवला (nevlā).

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /nə.kʊl/, [nɐ.kʊl]

नकुल • (nakul) m (Urdu spelling نکل)

1. a male given name, Nakul, from Sanskrit

नकुल • (nakul) m

1. mongoose

Borrowed from Sanskrit नकुल (nakula). First attested as Old Marathi 𑘡𑘎𑘳𑘩 (nakula).

• IPA^(key): /nə.kul/, [nə.kuːl]
• Hyphenation: न‧कुल
• Rhymes: -ul

नकुल • (nakul) m

1. (Hinduism) Nakula, the fourth Pandava

   Coordinate terms: युधिष्ठिर (yudhiṣṭhir), भीम (bhīm), अर्जुन (arjun), नकुल (nakul), सहदेव (sahdev)

2. a male given name from Sanskrit

नकुल • (nakul) m

1. (literary) a mongoose

   Synonym: मुंगूस (muṅgūs)

• Molesworth, James Thomas (1857), “नकुल”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press

नकुल m

1. Devanagari script form of nakula (“mongoose”)

Unknown. Pāṇini (6.3.73‑77) seems to suggest न (na, “no”) +‎ कुल (kula, “family”), but this is probably folk etymology.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /nɐ.ku.lɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /n̪ɐ.ku.l̪ɐ/

न॒कु॒ल • (nakulá) stem, m (feminine नकुली)

1. Any of genus Urva (split from genus Herpestes) of Asian mongooses, predators of mice and of serpents from whose venom it protects itself by a medicinal plant called नाकुली (nākulī))
   • c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE, Atharvaveda 6.139.5:

     यथा नकुलो विछिद्य संदधात्यहिं पुनः।
     एवा कामस्य विछिन्नं सं धेहि वीर्यावति॥

     yathā nakulo vichidya saṃdadhātyahiṃ punaḥ.
     evā kāmasya vichinnaṃ saṃ dhehi vīryāvati.

     Like the mongoose who, having torn apart the snake, puts it back together,
     May you in such manner join the broken shards of longing into a bond of strength.

   • c. 800 CE – 950 CE, Nārāyaṇa, Hitopadeśa 4.24.74:

     मत्स्यान् आदायागम्य नकुलविवराद् आरभ्य सर्पविवरं यावत् पङ्क्तिक्रमेणैकैकशो मत्स्यान् विस्तीर्य धत्त ।

     matsyān ādāyāgamya nakulavivarād ārabhya sarpavivaraṃ yāvat paṅktikrameṇaikaikaśo matsyān vistīrya dhatta.

     After fetching some fish, you place them one by one in a line copiously, starting from the mongoose-den all the way to the snake-hole.

   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata
2. a son
   • Lexicographers, Various Works
3. a particular musical instrument
   • c. 200 CE, Lalitavistara Sūtra
4. an epithet of Shiva
   • Lexicographers, Various Works

नकुल • (nakula) stem, m

1. (Hinduism) Nakula, son of Pandu and Madri, husband of Draupadi, and the father of Shatanika.

   Coordinate terms: युधिष्ठिर (yudhiṣṭhira), भीम (bhīma), अर्जुन (arjuna), नकुल (nakula), सहदेव (sahadeva)

न॒कु॒ल • (nakulá) stem

1. of a particular colour (perhaps that of the ichneumon)
   • c. 1200 BCE – 800 BCE, Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda (Taittirīya Saṃhitā)
   • RPrāt

• Dardic:
  • Kashmiri: نول (nūl)
  • Shina: [script needed] (nɔ̈̄lέ) — Jijelut dialect
  • Pashayi: [script needed] (noŭl, “otter”) — Kunar valley
• Pali: nakula
• Prakrit: 𑀡𑀉𑀮 (ṇaüla) (see there for further descendants)

Borrowed terms:

• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890), “नकुलः”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Monier Williams (1899), “नकुल”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 523, column 3.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “nakula”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 2
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “nakulá”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 397