Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Gup in Central African Republic is the name of a plant defined with Crossopteryx febrifuga in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Chomelia angolensis (Hiern) Kuntze (among others).

2) Gup in Kenya is also identified with Ziziphus mauritiana It has the synonym Paliurus mairei H. Lév. (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden (2192)
· The Gardeners Dictionary (1754)
· Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas C (1895)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1789)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1984)
· Novarum Stirpium Decades (1839)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Gup, for example health benefits, chemical composition, side effects, pregnancy safety, extract dosage, diet and recipes, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Gup (गुप्).—I. 1 P. (gopāyati, gopāyita or gupta)

1) To guard, protect, defend, watch over; गोपायन्ति कुलस्त्रिय आत्मानम् (gopāyanti kulastriya ātmānam) Mb.; जुगोपात्मानमत्रस्तः (jugopātmānamatrastaḥ) R.1.21; जुगोप गोरूपधरामिवोर्विम् (jugopa gorūpadharāmivorvim) 2.3; Bhaṭṭikāvya 17.8.

2) To hide, conceal; किं वक्षश्चरणानति- व्यतिकरव्याजेन गोपाय्यते (kiṃ vakṣaścaraṇānati- vyatikaravyājena gopāyyate) Amaruśataka 26; see गुप्त (gupta). -II. 1 Ā. जुगुप्सते (jugupsate) strictly desid. of गुप् (gup))

1) To despise, shun, abhor, detest, censure; (with abl. sometimes acc. also); पापाज्जुगुप्सते (pāpājjugupsate) Sk.; किं त्वं मामजुगुप्सिष्ठाः (kiṃ tvaṃ māmajugupsiṣṭhāḥ) Bhaṭṭikāvya 15.19; Y.3. 296.

2) To hide, conceal (gopate in this sense). -III. 4 P. (gupyati) To be confused or disturbed. -IV. 1 U. (gopayati-te)

1) To shine.

2) To speak.

3) To conceal; तव गोप्यते किमिव (tava gopyate kimiva) Śiśupālavadha 9.59;11.34; (the following stanza from kavirahasya illustrates the root in its different conjugations :-gopāyati kṣitimimāṃ caturabdhisīmāṃ pāpā- jjugupsata udāramatiḥ sadaiva | vittaṃ na gopayati yastu vaṇīyakemyo dhīro na gupyati mahatyapi kāryajāte ||)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Gup (गुप्).—[gupa] r. 1st cl. (jugupsate) 1. To conceal, to hide. 2. To censure, to blame or despise, (this root takes san irregularly.) (u) gupū r. 1st cl. (gopayati) To guard or protect. (ira) gapira r. 4th cl. (gupyati) 1. To be confused or disturbed. 2. To disturb or perplex. gupa r. 10th cl. (gopayati) 1. To shine. 2. To speak.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Gup (गुप्).—[Parasmaipada.] Base of the present, etc., gopāya (gopa, [Gītagovinda. ed. Lassen.] 6, 12), [Parasmaipada.]; and gopaya, [Parasmaipada.] [Ātmanepada.] (old Causals of guh; cf. ruh). 1. To guard, to protect, gopāyati, Mahābhārata 6, 472; gopayasva, 5, 350; jugopa, 6, 3897. 2. To keep in memory, [Gītagovinda. ed. Lassen.] 6, 12 (gopatas, ptcple. of the pres.). 3. To conceal, [Rājataraṅgiṇī] 5, 222; [Pañcatantra] ii. [distich] 106. 4. † gopaya, To speak.

— Ptcple. of the pf. pass., gopita and gupta, Guarded, Mahābhārata 1, 5090; [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 7, 76. gupta + m. adv. Privately, [Kathāsaritsāgara, (ed. Brockhaus.)] 5, 40.

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Gup (गुप्).—i. 4, [Parasmaipada.] To be confused or disturbed.

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Gup (गुप्).—[-gup], adj. Guarding, Mahābhārata 13, 7000.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Gup (गुप्).—1. [participle] gupita & gupta (q.v.) keep, protect, guard from ([ablative]) [Desiderative] jugupsate (ti) beware of, shun, detest; [participle] jugupsita detested, abominable, or *detesting ([with] [ablative]).

— prati beware of ([ablative]). vi [Desiderative] fly from, be afraid of ([ablative]). — Cf. adhigupta, anugupta, abhigupta, saṃgupta.

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Gup (गुप्).—2. (—°) keeping, guarding.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Gup (गुप्):—1. gup [class] 4. [Parasmaipada] pyati (p. [Ātmanepada] gupyamāna, in Prākṛt guppam° [Jaina literature]), to become perplexed or confused, [Dhātupāṭha xxvi, 123.]

2) 2. gup (for pr. etc. See gopaya & pāya, from which the root is derived cf. [Pāṇini 3-1, 28 & 31]; perf. jugopa, [Mahābhārata] etc.; 3. [plural] jugupur, [Ṛg-veda vii, 103, 9; Atharva-veda] etc.; [future] 2nd gopsyati, [Atharva-veda; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa vi etc.]; [future] 1st goptā or gopitā, [Pāṇini 7-2, 44]; [Aorist] agaupsīt or agopīt, [Pāṇini 3-1, 50; Kāśikā-vṛtti])

2) —to guard, defend, protect, preserve (from [ablative]), [Ṛg-veda vii, 103, 9; Atharva-veda] etc.;

2) —to hide, conceal, [Śiśupāla-vadha xvi, 30] ([infinitive mood] gopitum) :—[Causal] gopayati etc. See ss.vv. gopaya and pāya:—[Desiderative] [Ātmanepada] jugupsate ([Pāṇini 3-1, 5]; [Epic] also [Parasmaipada] ti)

2) —to seek to defend one’s self from ([ablative]), be on one’s guard (cf. [i, 4, 24], [vArttika] 1), [Śāṅkhāyana-gṛhya-sūtra iv, 12; Gobhila-śrāddha-kalpa; Chāndogya-upaniṣad v, 10, 8];

2) —to beware of, shun, avoid, detest, spurn, despise (with [accusative]), [Manu-smṛti; Yājñavalkya; Mahābhārata] etc.;

2) —to feel offended or hurt, [Mahābhārata i, 6375; iii, 1934] :—[Desiderative] of [Desiderative] jugupsiṣate, [Pāṇini 3-1, 7], [vArttika] 15, [Patañjali; vi, 1, 9; Kāśikā-vṛtti]

3) 3. gup mfn. ifc. ‘defending, protecting’ See dharma-

4) being on one’s guard or preserving one’s self from, [Naiṣadha-carita vi, 66.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Gup (गुप्):—(ū) gopati 1. a. To guard. (ya, ira) gupyati To be confused. (ka) gopayati 10. a. To shine. Irr. jugupsate To conceal, to blame.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Gup (गुप्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Guppa, Ṇaḍa, Vira.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Starts with (+111): Gupa, Gupachup, Gupacipa, Gupacupa, Gupaka, Gupara, Gupat, Gupatanem, Gupate, Guph, Gupha, Guphacitra, Guphala, Guphatanem, Guphita, Guphtagu, Gupila, Gupista, Gupita, Gupitakara.

Ends with: Abhigup, Ajugubgup, Amgup, Devagup, Dharmagup, Dugup, Maukup, Mokup, Nabhigup, Nigup, Nirgup, Parigup, Parvagup, Pekup, Pevakup, Pragup, Sugup, Upagup, Vigup, Vishnugup.

Full-text (+80): Nada, Guppa, Dharmagup, Gupila, Jugupishu, Gopana, Goptri, Nigup, Gopeti, Gupta, Jugupsita, Abhigupti, Gopaya, Gopin, Samgupta, Jigucchati, Gupti, Upagup, Vigup, Jugups.

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Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)

Verse 5.24.76 < [Chapter 24 - The Killing of the Kola Demon]

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The Bhagavata Purana (by G. V. Tagare)

Chapter 12 - Birth of Parīkṣit < [Book 1 - First Skandha]

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Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)

Kāṇḍa X, adhyāya 5, brāhmaṇa 2 < [Tenth Kāṇḍa]

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