شكل

शुक्ल śukla, vulg. śukl, and śukal, śukul, sukal, sukul, adj. & s.m. (f. -ā), Light, bright; white, clean, pure, unsullied;—white colour, whiteness; name of a sect of Brāhmas (who derive their subsistence by serving, or by begging from Brāhmans, and are regarded as unsullied); an individual of that sect;—the twenty-fourth of the astronomical period called yoga; the light half of a month (from new to full moon);—silver;—fresh butter;—a disease of the cornea, albugo (cf. śukra):—śukl-paksh, s.m. The light half of the month (the fortnight of the moon's increase; opp. to krish-paksh):—śukl-pakshī, or śuklpakshīya, adj. Relating to the light half of the month:—śuklā-ćauth, s.f. The fourth day of the light half of a month:—śuklī-karm, adj. Making white, whitening;—s.m. Soap:—śukl-kanhak, s.m.lit.'Having a white throat'; a kind of gallenule or water-hen.