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According to Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, Sanskrit word sárva means “all and whole.” He also lists cognates of sárva in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali sabba-; Aśokan i.e., the language of the Inscriptions of Aśoka, Shāhbāzgaṛhī, Mānsehrā, and Girnār Rock Inscription of Aśoka sarva-; Kālsī, Dhauli, and Jaugaḍa Rock Inscription of Aśoka sava; Gāndhārī or Northwest Prakrit sarva-, sava-; Language of ‘Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan’ sarva, s̱a°; Prakrit savva-; Apabhraṁśa sā̆va, sā̆hu; Gypsy or Romani, European (Gypsy) savoro, saró; English sor; Armenian savə; Ashkun, sew, sawák; Kati or Katei sū; Prasun sučṓ; Waigalī sab, sap (loanword from Indo-Aryan of India proper excluding Kafiri and Dardic), Tōrwālī (Dardic) sōw, Niṅgalāmī (Dardic) ṣōka; Shuṃashti šauke; Bashkarīk (Dardic) sō, sūo; Kashmiri and Ḍoḍī (Sirājī of Ḍoḍā; a dialect of Kashmiri in Jammu) sabbaṇē; Sindhī sabhu, sabha; Lahndā sabbho (f. sabbhā), sabhā, habba, habbh; Awāṇkārī (dialect of Lahndā) habhā; Poṭhwārī (dialect of Lahndā) habbā, habbh, habh; Panjābī sabh, sabbhe; West Pahāṛī and Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) sebbh; pāḍarī sub-dialect of Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) sōbh; Paṅgwāḷī (dialect of Shina) sabh; Kumaunī sab; Gaṅgoī (dialect of Kumaunī) śΛp, śΛppε; Nepāli and Bengali sab; Oṛiyā sabo, sabu, sabā; Maithilī sab, sabh; Bhojpurī sabh; Awadhī and Lakhīmpurī (dialect of Awadhī) sab; Hindī sab, sabh; Old Mārwāṛī saba; Old Gujarātī sahu, savi; Gujarātī sāv, sahu, sau; Sinhalese sav, hav.
All these cognates and the following words related to sárva originate from the Tamil root iṟai.
sarvajña, “omniscient.” sarvátra, “everywhere.” sarvátha, see sarvátra. sarvākāram, “in all ways.”