PANDANUS Project  
masūra in Pandanus database of Indian plant names
 •  Pandanus Homepage  •  Database of Plants  •  Publications  •  Sanskrit E-texts  •  Seminar of Indian Studies  •
 

  masūra details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

Back to the list of plant names 

 
 Plant namemasūra
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameLens culinaris Medik. - please click to view full record
 Sanskrit namemasūra
 Hindi namemasūr, masurī
 Tamil nameatāṇapparuppu, micūr paruppu
 Malayalam namecaṇampayar, vaṭṭupparippu, aṭhāṇapparippi
 English nameLentil
 Search occurrencemasūra, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 794)
masūra, m. = masura, VS. &c. &c.; a pillow L.; (ā and ī), f. see below.

masura, m. a sort of lentil or pulse, L.


 
(c) 1998-2009 Seminar of Indian Studies, Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Development of this database of Indian plant names was made possible by the generous funding of the Grant Agency of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.