घड़ियाल

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɡʱə.ɽɪ.jɑːl/, [ɡʱɐ.ɽi.jäːl]
• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Inherited from Sanskrit घण्टिक (ghaṇṭika) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀮- (-la-).

घड़ियाल • (ghaṛiyāl) m (Urdu spelling گھڑیال)

1. crocodile; alligator; gharial, gavial

   Synonyms: नक्र (nakra), मगर (magar), मगरमच्छ (magarmacch)

• घड़ियाल के आँसू (ghaṛiyāl ke ā̃sū)
• घड़ियाली (ghaṛiyālī)

• → English: gharial / gavial
• → French: gavial
  • → Catalan: gavial
  • → Portuguese: gavial
  • → Romanian: gavial
  • → Spanish: gavial

Inherited from Sanskrit *घटीताड (*ghaṭītāḍa), from घटी (ghaṭī, “pot, water clock, period of 24 minutes”) +‎ ताड (tāḍa, “blow”).

घड़ियाल • (ghaṛiyāl) m or f (Urdu spelling گھڑیال)

1. a plate of bell metal on which, historically, each ghari (period of 24 minutes) measured was struck; gong; bell

• घड़याल (ghaṛyāl)

• घड़ियाल वाला (ghaṛiyāl vālā)
• घड़ियाला (ghaṛiyālā)
• घड़ियाली (ghaṛiyālī)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “घड़ियाल”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “घड़ियाल”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884), “گهڙيال”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*ghaṭītāḍa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press