The Turban Gallery in the Mehrangarh Museum seeks to preserve, document and display the many different types of turbans once prevalent in Rajasthan ; every community, region and, indeed, festival having had its own head-gear.

To the left of the fort is the chhatri of Kirat Singh Soda, a soldier who fell on the spot defending the Mehrangarh fort.

The museum in the Mehrangarh fort is one of the most well-stocked museums in Rajasthan.

A courtyard in Mehrangarh fort, Jodhpur

It is also referred to as the " Blue City " due to the blue-painted houses around the Mehrangarh Fort.

Jodhpur Panorama, seen from the Mehrangarh Fort.

Mehrangarh Fort, located in Jodhpur, Rajasthan is one of the largest forts in India.

Mehrangarh Fort is also a favorite spot for Bollywood and Hollywood movies.

Filming of the last installment of the Christopher Nolan directed Batman movie trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, began on 6 May 2011, at Mehrangarh Fort.

Sheesha Mahal, inside Mehrangarh.

Built by Raja Sur Singh ( 1595 – 1619 ), the Moti Mahal is the largest of the Mehrangarh Museum's period rooms.

Built and lived in by Maharaja Takhat Singh ( 1843 – 1873 ), Jodhpur's last ruler to reside in the Mehrangarh Fort, Takhat Vilas is an interesting blend of styles, most traditional, but some, like the glass balls on the ceiling, testifying to the modern age which arrived with the British.

Mahadol, the Palanquin at Mehrangarh MuseumThe howdahs were a kind of two-compartment wooden seat ( mostly covered with gold and silver embossed sheets ), which were fastened on to the elephant's back.

Folio from the Shiva Purana at Mehrangarh Museum, c. 1828.

The Jodhpur Group-Malani Igneous Suite Contact on which the Mehrangarh Fort has been built has been declared a National Geological Monument by the Geological Survey of India to encourage Geotourism in the country.

Crowds throng Mehrangarh during the Dussehra celebrations.

A human stampede occurred on September 30, 2008, at the Chamunda Devi temple inside of the Mehrangarh Fort, in which 249 people were killed and more than 400 injured.

A Punkah with cord, Takhat Vilas, Mehrangarh Fort Palace, Jodhpur.

This has been said to derive from the παν-" all " and θήρ from θηρευτής " predator ", meaning " predator of all " ( animals ), though this may be a folk etymology — it may instead be ultimately of Sanskrit origin, from pundarikam, the Sanskrit word for " tiger ".

To evaluate the etymology of words, Webster learned twenty-six languages, including Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ), German, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Arabic, and Sanskrit.

The name stems from Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka ( aka Ceylon ), from Arabic Sarandib, which was adopted from Tamil " Seren deevu " or originally from Sanskrit Suvarnadweepa or golden island ( some trace the etymology to Simhaladvipa which literally translates to " Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island ").

In 1907, Whitley Stokes suggested an etymology from Proto-Celtic * samani (' assembly '), cognate to Sanskrit sámana, and the Gothic samana.

This etymology is dismissed by some scholars, who suggest that ' Sina ' in Sanskrit evolved much earlier before the Qin dynasty.

If the name has an Indo-European etymology, it is possibly a suffixed form of a root * wel-" to turn, roll ", or of * sel-" to flow, run ".< ref > The American Heritage Dictionary, " Indo-European roots: wel < sup > ₂ </ sup >"</ ref > The latter possibility would allow comparison to the Vedic Sanskrit Saraṇyū, a character who is abducted in Rigveda 10. 17. 2.

In order to evaluate the etymology of words, Webster learned 26 languages, including Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ), German, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Arabic, and Sanskrit.

) Another etymology, found in many English language dictionaries, is modern English pagoda from Portuguese ( via Dravidian ), from Sanskrit bhagavati, feminine of bhagavatt " blessed " < bhaga " good fortune.

Indo-Europeanist Georges Dumézil attempted to link it to the Sanskrit word brahman, but this etymology is controversial.

According to folk etymology, the name " Kashmir " means " desiccated land " ( from the Sanskrit: Ka

The name Gandhara is of Sanskrit origin, but its ultimate etymology is uncertain.

These names were also once thought to be connected to Sanskrit Varuna and Greek Ouranos, for example by Max Muller ( Comparative Mythology p. 84 ), but this is now rejected on linguistic grounds, (" the etymology is disputed " Shapiro, JIES 10, 1 & 2, p. 155 ).

The etymology of tellus is uncertain ; it is perhaps related to Sanskrit talam, " plain ground.

* according to A Persian etymology ` Ajam comes from the first name of the ancient Persian king, Jamshid, The etymology would have " Ajam " as an arabized version of the kings name ' Jam ' rooted in Sanskrit " Jam " or Yami ,( Sanskrit: यम ी) is the first woman, along with her twin brother Yama.

This is in concord with its etymology: the Slavic prepositional case hails from the Proto-Indo-European locative case ( present in Armenian, Sanskrit, and Old Latin, among others ).

The Sanskrit linguists and grammarians of ancient India were the first to make a comprehensive analysis of linguistics and etymology.

The study of Sanskrit etymology has provided Western scholars with the basis of historical linguistics and modern etymology.

Traditional etymology holds that the Sanskrit name derives from the Qin state or dynasty ( 秦, Old Chinese: * dzin ) which ruled China from 221 – 206 BC.

Others remark that the names Kuru and Kamboja are of disputed etymology, but may attach to Sanskrit Kura and Kamboja, originally Aryan heroes, whose names were revived in a royal house in Persia.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

Afghan ( Pashto / Persian: افغان ; see etymology ) is used to indicate a citizen of Afghanistan.

An alternative, Proto-Indo-European etymology comes through Potnia and Despoina ; where Des-represents a derivative of PIE * dem ( house, dome ), and Demeter is " mother of the house " ( from PIE * dems-méh₂tēr ).

The etymology of the name is disputed ; an alternative name of the dance is stantipes, which suggests that one foot was stationary during the dance ; but the more widely accepted etymology relates it to estamper, to stamp the feet.

The supposition that the early < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > vidula was adopted independently in more than one < nowiki > language < nowiki ></ nowiki > would account adequately for all the < nowiki ></ nowiki > forms ; on the other hand, * fiÞulôn-may be an < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > word of native etymology, though no satisfactory < nowiki ></ nowiki > derivation has been found.

Modern etymology reconstructs Proto-Germanic * hagatusjon-from haegtesse and hagazussa ; the first element is probably cognate with hedge, which derives from PIE * kagh-" hedge, enclosure ", and the second perhaps from * dhewes-" fly about, be smoke, vanish.

When linguists study the lexicon, they consider such things as what constitutes a word ; the word-concept relationship ; lexical access and lexical access failure ; how a word's phonology, syntax, and meaning intersect ; the morphology-word relationship ; vocabulary structure within a given language ; language use ( that is, pragmatics ); language acquisition ; the history and evolution of words ( i. e. etymology ); and the relationships between words, often studied within philosophy of language.

This name may be of Swahili etymology ; not to be confused with the Panga fish.

Common digraphs include ⟨ oo ⟩, which represents either, or ; ⟨ oi ⟩ which typically represents the diphthong, like the pronunciation of ⟨ oi ⟩ in " boil "; and ⟨ ao ⟩, ⟨ oe ⟩, and ⟨ ou ⟩ which represent a variety of pronunciations depending on context and etymology.

The etymology of the word into English is from Old French Philistin, from Classical Latin Philistinus found in the writings of Josephus, from Late Greek Philistinoi ( Phylistiim in the Septuagint ) found in the writings by Philo, from Hebrew Plištim, ( e. g. 1 Samuel 17: 36 ; 2 Samuel 1: 20 ; Judges 14: 3 ; Amos 1: 8 ), " people of Plešt " (" Philistia "); cf.

The names of Silesia in the different languages most likely share their etymology — Latin and English: Silesia ; Polish: Śląsk ; Old Polish: Ślążsk ; Silesian: Ślůnsk ; German: Schlesien ; Silesian German: Schläsing ; Czech: Slezsko ; Slovak: Sliezsko ; Kashubian: Sląsk ; Upper Sorbian: Šleska ; Lower Sorbian: Šlazyńska.