The Sanskrit term Dēvanaḷa can be transliterated into English as Devanala or Devanalia, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Devanala in India is the name of a plant defined with Lobelia nicotianaefolia in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Lobelia nicotianifolia Roth ex Schultes (among others).

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

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Current Science (1981)

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

dēvanaḷa (देवनळ) [or देवनाळ, dēvanāḷa].—m A kind of reed, Arundo tibialis.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

dēvanaḷa (देवनळ) [or dēvanāḷa, or देवनाळ].—m A kind of reed.

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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.

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Devanala (देवनल).—m.

(-laḥ) A kind of reed, (Arundo bengalensis) E. deva, and nala a reed; also read devanāla .

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

1) Devanala (देवनल):—[=deva-nala] [from deva] m. ‘god’s reed’, Arundo Bengalensis, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.] (cf. -nāla).

2) Devanāla (देवनाल):—[=deva-nāla] [from deva] m. = -nala, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Devanala (देवनल):—[deva-nala] (laḥ) 1. m. Bengal reed.

[Sanskrit to German]

Devanala 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

Dēvanāla (ದೇವನಾಲ):—

1) [noun] the grass Arundo bengalensis of Poaceae family.

2) [noun] the plant Lobelia nicotianaefolia of Companulaceae family; wild tobacco.

3) [noun] its leaf.

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Dēvanāḷa (ದೇವನಾಳ):—[noun] = ದೇವನಾಲ [devanala].

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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: Deva, Nala.

Ends with: Thoradevanala.

Full-text: Nalottama, Vanya, Nala.

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