masculine · vāla 1.1 · vāla 1.2
hair of the tail. (adjective), fierce; malicious
Vāla 1 [Vedic vāla; connected with Latin adūlāre (ad + ūlāre) to flatter (literal wag the tail, like a dog), cf. English adulation; Lithuanian valaī horse hair] 1. the hair of the tail, horse-hair, tail Vin II 195 = Ja V 335 (pahaṭṭha-kaṇṇavāla with bristling ears and tail, of an elephant); Ja V 274 (so read for phāla, cf. page 268, V 113); Pv-a 285 (°koṭi, so read for bāla°); Saddh 139. — pallaṅkassa vāle bhinditvā destroying the hair (-stuffing) of a couch Vin II 170 = Sv I 88; cf. Vin IV 299: pallaṅko āharimehi vālehi kato. — On v. in similes see JPTS 1907, 136. 2. a hair-sieve [also Vedic] M I 229. -agga the tip of a hair A III 403; Miln 250 (°vedha hitting the tip of a hair, of an archer); Sv I 66; -aṇḍupaka a certain material, head dress (?) A I 209 (so read for vālanduka); Vism 142; As 115 (reads leḍḍūpaka); -kambala a blanket made of horse-tails D I 167; A I 240, 296; Pp 55; -koṭi the tip of the hair Pv-a 285; -rajju a cord made of hair S II 238; A IV 129; Ja II 161; -vījanī a fan made of a Yak's tail, a chowry D I 7; -vedhin (an archer) who can hit a hair Ja I 58 (akkhaṇa-vedhin + v.); Vism 150; Mhv 23, 86 (sadda-vedhin vijju-vedhin + v.). The abstract °vedhā hitting a hair, at Vism 150. — figurative an acute arguer, a hair-splitter; in standing phrase paṇḍitā nipuṇā kata-para-ppavādā vālavedhi-rūpā at D I 26; M I 176; II 122; see explanation at Sv I 117. Vāla 2 (adjective) [cf. Sanskrit vyāla] malicious, troublesome, difficult Vin II 299 (adhikaraṇa). Vāla 3 (neuter) [= vāri, cf. late Sanskrit vāla] water; only in compound °ja a fish (cf. vārija).
【陽】 尾毛。【形】 兇猛的，懷惡意的。~kambala,【中】 以馬毛製的被單。~gga,【中】 頭端。~ṇdupaka,【陽、中】 以馬尾製的刷子。~vījanī,【陰】 拂塵（驅除蚊蠅的用具，柄端紮犛牛尾）。~miga,【陽】 捕鹿野獸（即：虎、豹等）。~vedhī,【陽】 能射中一根頭髮的弓箭手。
(masc, masc) tail hair hair of the tail
(masc, masc) sieve made from tail hair
(adj, adj) fierce, malicious
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