Utu, Uṭu, Ūṭu: 7 definitions

Introduction:

Utu means something in Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, biology, Tamil. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines

Temperature (utu). - For corporeality produced by temperature, s. samutthāna.

Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines

temperature, heat, is identical with the heat-element (tejodhātu).

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

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Biology (plants and animals)

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

Utu in India is the name of a plant defined with Albizia amara in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Mimosa pulchella Roxb. (among others).

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

· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Species Plantarum.
· Plants of the Coast of Coromandel (1799)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1834)

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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.

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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

utu : (f.; nt.) season; climate; the menses.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Utu, (m. & nt.) (Vedic ṛtu special or proper time, with adj. ṛta straight, right, rite, ṛti manner to Lat. ars “art”, Gr. damar(t), further Lat. rītus (rite), Ags. rīm number; of *ar to fit in, adjust etc. q. v. under appeti) — 1. (lit.) (a) (good or proper) time, season: aruṇa-utu occasion or time of the sun(-rise) DhA. I, 165; utuṃ gaṇhāti to watch for the right time (in horoscopic practice), to prognosticate ibid. sarīraṃ utuṃ gaṇhāpeti “to cause the body to take season”, i.e. to refresh the body by cool, sleep, washing etc. J. III, 527; DA. I, 252.—(b) yearly change, time of the year, season Vism. 128. There are usually three seasons men‹-› tioned, viz. the hot, rainy and wintry season or gimha, vassa & hemanta A. IV, 138; SnA 317. Six seasons (in connection with nakkhatta) at J. V, 330 & VI, 524. Often utu is to be understood, as in hemantikena (scil. utunā) in the wintry season S. V, 51.—(c) the menses SnA 317; J. V, 330 (utusinātāya read utusi nhātāya; utusi Loc. as expld. by C. pupphe uppanne utumhi nahātāya).—2. (applied in a philosophical sense: one of the five fold cosmic order, physical change, physical law of causation (opp. kamma), physical order: see Asl. 272 f.; Dialogues, II, 8, n.; Kvu trsln. 207; cp. Mrs. Rh. D. Buddhism, p. 119 f. Cpd. 161, Dhs. trsln. introd. XVII; & cp. cpds. So in connection with kamma at Vism. 451, 614; J. VI, 105 (kamma-paccayena utunā samuṭṭhitā Veraraṇī); perhaps also at Miln. 410 (megha ututo samuṭṭhahitvā).

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

utū (उतू).—m ( H) A mode of marking cloth with lines: also the lines so stamped or made. See under utaviṇēṃ.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Ūtu (ಊತು):—

1) [noun] a heavy blow.

2) [noun] (dial.) a projecting support of stone or brick etc. built against a wall; a buttress.

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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.

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