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Plant name	jambū
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Eugenia jambolana Lam.
Sanskrit name	jambū
Prakrit name	jaṃbū
Hindi name	jamūn, jaṃbhāl, jamān
Bengali name	jām, kālojām, deśī jām
Tamil name	koṭṭaiñāval, nāval, nāṟunaṟuvili
Malayalam name	ñāval
English name	Jaman, Jambolan, Black plum, Indian blackberry
Search occurrence	jambū, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 412) jambu, -bU f. the rose apple tree (Eugenia jambolana or another species) Kauś. 8 MBh. &c.; the shrub nāga-damanī, L.; (-bu) n. the rose apple fruit Pāṇ. 4-3, 165; m. or f. (?; g. varaṇādi) = -dvīpa BhP. v, 1, 32; N. of a fabulous river (flowing from the mountain Meru; formed by the juice of the fruits of the immense Jambu tree on that mountain cf. MBh. vi, 277 f.) BhP. v, 20, 2; cf. āḍhaka-, kāka-, go-rakṣa-, mahā-. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 412) jambū, f . = -bu, the rose apple tree MBh. &c.; m. = -svāmin Jain.

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