Sanskrit

Noun

शूल • ‎(śūla) m

1. any sharp instrument or pointed dart, lance, pike, spear (esp. the trident of शिव).
2. a stake for impaling criminals.
3. any sharp or acute pain (esp. that of colic or gout).
4. pain, grief, sorrow.

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 1086