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 Plant namekola
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameZiziphus mauritiana Lam. - please click to view full record
 Latin name (synonyms)Ziziphus jujuba Lam.
 Sanskrit namekola, badara, kolī
 Hindi nameber, berī
 Tamil nameilantai, ilantappaḻam
 Malayalam nameilanta, lantappaḻam, ilantappaḻam, peruntuṭali
 English nameIndian jujube, Common jujube, Chinese date
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 313)
kola, m. (jvalādi), a hog (cf. kroDa), Yājñ. iii, 273 Vop.; a raft Divyāv. iii; the breast, haunch, hip or flank, lap (cf. kroDa), L.; an embrace, embracing, L.; a kind of weapon, L.; N. of a plant (= citra, citraka), L.; the planet Saturn, L.; N. of Śiva, Gal.; N. of a son of Ākrīḍa, Hariv. 1836; N. of a degraded warrior-tribe (outcast, one degraded by Sagara from the military order), Hariv. (v.l. koli-sarpa q.v.); a man of a mixed caste, BrahmaP.; a barbarian, Kol, of a tribe inhabiting the hills in central India, W.; (as, am), m. n. the weight of one Tola (= 2 TaGka [or śANa Aṣṭāṅg.] = 1/2 karSa, ŚārṅgS.); (ā), f. Piper longum, L.; Piper Chaba, L.; (ā, ī), f. the jujube tree, L.; (am) n. the fruit of the jujube (cf. kuvala) ChUp. vii, 3, 1, Lalit., Suśr.; black pepper, L.; the grain of Piper Chaba, L.


 
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