ศาล
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shrine
Built from
From Sanskrit शाल (śālá, “court; rampart”) or शाला (śā́lā, “court; hall; house; workshop”); probably via Angkorian Old Khmer śāla (“court; hall; pavilion; residence”). Compare Old Khmer sālā; Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer śālā; Angkorian Old Khmer sāla. Cognate with Modern Khmer សាលា (saalaa); Lao ສານ (sān). Doublet of ศาลา (sǎa-laa). Ultimately the same as the "court" sense of Etymology 1, with semantic transfer from the first component, มหา (má-hǎa, “grand, great”), of the compound word มหาศาล. From apheresis of ไพศาล (pai-sǎan).
From Wiktionary
used in มหาศาล (“great, huge”)
clipping of ไพศาล (pai-sǎan, “large”)
court; tribunal
shrine (mostly in folk religions of Thailand and Southeast Asia, Hinduism, Chinese folk religion)