Adhijihva: 8 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryAdhijihva (अधिजिह्व).—[adhikā jihvā yasya] A serpent (who has a forked tongue). This arose from the attempt of the serpents to lick the nectar placed on a bed of Kuśa grass, the sharp points of which pricked the tongue and split it into two.
-hvā-jihvikā [अधिरूढा जिह्वा, स्वार्थे कन् (adhirūḍhā jihvā, svārthe kan)
1) The uvula.
2) A sort of swelling of the tongue or epiglottis.
Derivable forms: adhijihvaḥ (अधिजिह्वः).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryAdhijihva (अधिजिह्व).—m.
(-hvaḥ) A tumor on the tongue. E. adhi, and jihvā the tongue.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryAdhijihva (अधिजिह्व).—m. a tumour on the tongue.
Adhijihva is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms adhi and jihva (जिह्व).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryAdhijihva (अधिजिह्व):—[=adhi-jihva] m. a peculiar swelling of the tongue or epiglottis, [Suśruta]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English DictionaryAdhijihva (अधिजिह्व):—[bahuvrihi compound] m.
(-hvaḥ) One of the diseases of the throat, described as ‘a swelling at the root of the tongue like a second tongue’ (probably a swelling of the epiglottis)—therefore called also dvijihva—and produced by the phlegm and blood; when it suppurates, considered as incurable. Also adhijihvikā. E. adhi and jihvā.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryAdhijihva (अधिजिह्व):—[adhi-jihva] (hvaḥ) 1. m. A tumour on the tongue.
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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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Full-text: Adhijihvika, Dvijihva.
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