04-17-2007, 06:24 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Glass (gilAs in Hindi) : what is the original term for this in Bharatiya languages? Did it even exist indigenously in that shape? What about 'cup' (farsi = pyAlA) ? <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I have been trying to find the same for sometime now (galass in Telugu, galassi in Panjabi) but haven't been able to, check the dictionaries here:
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/list.html
The Urdu one's also give the origins of the terms.
k.ram thanks for the link, here is another good dictionary for Telugu:
http://www.sahiti.org/dict/
I have been trying to find the same for sometime now (galass in Telugu, galassi in Panjabi) but haven't been able to, check the dictionaries here:
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/list.html
The Urdu one's also give the origins of the terms.
k.ram thanks for the link, here is another good dictionary for Telugu:
http://www.sahiti.org/dict/