viralikaa

[Peter Wyzlic]

Am Mittwoch, den 05.09.2007, 16:13 +0200 schrieb Jonathan Silk:
> In something now in the press, I have a passage in which the term 
> viralikaa occurs, a sort of colorful fabric. BR explains it as a sort 
> of porous fabric. Does anyone have a more specific suggestion as to 
> its identity? (The editor queried my translation as chiffon, which I 
> confess was a much a place filler as anything else...)

Turner has the following entry:
No. 11848 viralikā f. "a kind of thin cloth" lex. [virala - ]
N. birāli "improvised bag made of a cloth or scarf for carrying rice"?
[N. stands for Nepali]

And virala- (No. 11847) means "wide apart, loose, thin, few". See R. L.
Turner: A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages. London
1966, online version:
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/soas/index.html

All the best
Peter Wyzlic

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