Etymology

From Elu Prakrit [script needed] (potthiā) from Pali पोत्थक ‎(potthaka) from Sanskrit पुस्तक ‎(pustaka). Cognate with Kashmiri [Devanagari needed] ‎(pūthi), Sindhi [script needed] ‎(potī), Gujarati [script needed] ‎(potī), Marathi [script needed] ‎(potī), Oriya [script needed] ‎(pothā), Assamese [script needed] ‎(puthī), Bengali [script needed] ‎(puthī), Hindi [script needed] ‎(pothī), Punjabi [script needed] ‎(puthī), Nepali पोथी (pothī).