The Sanskrit term Śyālaka can be transliterated into English as Syalaka or Shyalaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Śyālaka (श्यालक).—

1) A wife's brother.

2) A wretched brother-in-law.

Derivable forms: śyālakaḥ (श्यालकः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śyālaka (श्यालक).—m.

(-kaḥ) A wife’s brother. f. (-likā or lakī) A wife’s sister. E. kan added to the last.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śyālaka (श्यालक).—[śyāla + ka], m. A miserable brother-in-law, [Cāṇakya] 80 -in Berl. Monatsb. 1864, 412.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Syālaka (स्यालक):—[from syāla] m. a wife’s brother (= svāla), [Cāṇakya; Prabodha-candrodaya]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śyālaka (श्यालक):—(kaḥ) 1. m. Id. likā f. Idem.

[Sanskrit to German]

Shyalaka in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Śyālaka (श्यालक):—(nm) a brother-in-law—wife’s brother.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Śyālaka (ಶ್ಯಾಲಕ):—[noun] = ಶ್ಯಾಲ [shyala].

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Ends with: Pushyalaka.

Full-text: Shyalika, Calakan, Salaka.

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