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 Plant namekumbhī
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameCareya arborea Roxb. - please click to view full record
 Sanskrit namekumbhī, kaṭabhī
 Hindi namekumbī
 Bengali namekumbhi
 Tamil nameāvimā, kumpī, aimā, pēḻaimaram
 Malayalam namepēḻu, alam, pēru, pēḷu
 English nameKumbi
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 293)
kumbha m. a jar, pitcher, waterpot, ewer, small water-jar [often ifc. (f. ā) e.g. chidra-k-, a perforated pitcher R.; āma-k-, a jar of unbaked clay Pañcat.; hema-k-, a golden ewer Ragh. ii, 36 Amar.; jala-k-, a water-pot Pañcat.] RV. AV. &c.; an urn in which the bones of a dead person are collected ĀśvGṛ. KātyŚr. ŚāṅkhŚr.; the sign of the zodiac Aquarius Jyot. VarBṛS. &c.; a measure of grain (equal to twenty Droṇas, a little more than three bushels and three gallons; commonly called a comb; some make it two Droṇas or sixty-four Seers) Mn. viii, 320 Hcat.; the frontal globe or prominence on the upper part of the forehead of an elephant (there are two of these prominences which swell in the rutting season) MBh. Bhartṛ. &c.; a particular part of a bed VarBṛS.; N. of a plant (and also of its fruit) BhP. x, 18, 14; the root of a plant used in medicine; a religious exercise, viz. closing the nostrils and mouth so as to suspend breathing L.; the paramour of a harlot, bully, flash or fancy man L.; N. of a Mantra (pronounced over a weapon) R. i; N. of a Dānava (a son of Prahlāda and brother of Nikumbha) MBh. i, 2527 Hariv.; of a Rākshasa (son of Kumbhakarṇa) R. BhP.; of the father of the nineteenth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī Jain.; of a monkey R. iv, 33, 14; one of the thirty-four Jātakas or former births of Śākya-muni L.; N. of wk. Sāh.; (ā) f. a harlot L.; the plant Tiaridium indicum L.; (fr. kumbh) covering Vop.; (ī) f. a small jar or pot, earthen cooking vessel VS. AV. TS. &c.; N. of a hell Kāraṇḍ.; of a plant Bālar.; a small tree (the seeds of which are used in medicine, commonly Kaṭphala) L.; Bignonia suaveolens L.; Pistia Stratiotes L.; another plant (commonly Romaśa) L.; the plant Croton polyandrum L.; the plant Myrica sapida L.; (am) n. the plant Ipomoea Turpethum L.; a fragrant resin (guggulu), or the plant which bears it L.; gold Gal.; [cf. Gk. &90932[293,1] $; Lat. cymba.]


 
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