सफ़ेद
Hindi
adj
Definitions
- white color
- white, fair used for appearance of a person or animal
- clean
- blank
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian سفید (white) derived from Middle Persian spyt' (white) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytos (shine, bright).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱweytos
Gloss
shine, bright
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🌟 ⭐️ 🌟 🌠 💡 🔦 🕯️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *ḱweytos Proto-Indo-European
- *hwītaz Proto-Germanic
- श्वेत Sanskrit
- *světъ Proto-Slavic
- श्वेत Hindi
- सफ़ेदी Hindi
- سفید Persian
- سفیدپوست Persian
- سپهر Persian
- seta Pali
- સફેદ Gujarati
- *ćwaytás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- سفید Urdu
- spyt' Middle Persian
- *cwaytáh Proto-Iranian
- ਸਫ਼ੈਦ Panjabi, Punjabi
- ಶ್ವೇತ Kannada
- 𐨯𐨤𐨡 Gandhari