वलय

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वलय (valaya).

वलय • (valay) m (Urdu spelling ولی)

1. bracelet
2. armlet
3. ring

McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वलय”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Of uncertain origin.

Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”), per Pokorny.[1] However, later linguists such as Mayrhofer and Persson reject this etymology, preferring to link the word with either वल् (val, “to turn round”) or to Dravidian; compare Tamil வளை (vaḷai, “to bend”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐ.lɐ.jɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɐ.l̪ɐ.jɐ/

वलय • (valaya) stem, m or n

1. a bracelet, armlet, ring (worn by men and women on the wrist)
   1. (figuratively) waves (as compared to bracelets)
2. a zone, girdle (of a married woman)
3. a line (of bees)
4. a circle, circumference, round enclosure

वलय • (valaya) stem, m

1. a sore throat, inflammation of the larynx
2. a kind of circular military array
3. a branch
4. (in the plural) name of a people

वलय • (valaya) stem, n

1. name of certain round bones
2. multitude, swarm

• Monier Williams (1899) “वलय”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 927/3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (2001) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 461
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1976) Kurzgefasstes Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindischen [A Concise Etymological Sanskrit Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 162