Biology (plants and animals)

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

Mukhabhanga in India is the name of a plant defined with Moringa ovalifolia in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Moringa moringa Millsp. (among others).

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

· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1963)
· Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (1982)
· Moringaceae.
· Flora of the Southeastern United States (1903)
· Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae (1984)
· Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden (2007)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Mukhabhanga, for example diet and recipes, side effects, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, health benefits, chemical composition, 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

Mukhabhaṅga (मुखभङ्ग).—

1) a blow on the face.

2) wry face, grimace.

Derivable forms: mukhabhaṅgaḥ (मुखभङ्गः).

Mukhabhaṅga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mukha and bhaṅga (भङ्ग).

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

1) Mukhabhaṅga (मुखभङ्ग):—[=mukha-bhaṅga] [from mukha] m. a blow on the face (upānan-m, a blow on the f° with a shoe), [Cāṇakya]

2) [v.s. ...] a face distorted by sickness, wry f°, grimace, [Kādambarī; Gāruḍa-purāṇa]

[Sanskrit to German]

Mukhabhanga in German

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Mukhabhaṃga (ಮುಖಭಂಗ):—[noun] an open or intentional insult; slight to one’s dignity; affront.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Mukha, Bhanga.

Ends with: Madhvamukhabhanga.

Full-text: Madhvamukhabhanga.

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