Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Wisdom Library: Local Names of Plants and Drugs

Dhura in the Hindi language is the name of a plant identified with Buddleja asiatica Lour. from the Scrophulariaceae (Figwort) family having the following synonyms: Buddleja arfakensis, Buddleja discolor, Buddleja neemda. For the possible medicinal usage of dhura, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.

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

1) Dhura in India is the name of a plant defined with Buddleja asiatica in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Vitex esquirolii H. Léveillé (among others).

2) Dhura is also identified with Ficus palmata It has the synonym Ficus pseudocarica Miq..

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

· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1987)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1983)
· Numer. List (6401)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. (1821)
· Botanical Magazine (1942)

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

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

dhura : (nt.) 1. an office; responsibility; a charge; 2. a yoke; 3. the shaft of a carriage; 4. the forepart. (adj.) foremost; near.

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

Dhura, (m. & nt.) (Sk. dhur f. & dhura m.) 1. a yoke, a pole, the shaft of a carriage J.I, 192 (purima-sakaṭa°), 196; Cp. II.8, 4.—2. (fig.) a burden, load, charge, office, responsibility Sn.256 (vahanto porisaṃ dh °ṃ “carrying a human yoke”=purisânucchavikā bhārā SnA 299), 694 (asama° one who has to bear a heavy burden=asamaviriya SnA 489); DhA.II, 97 (sama°); dve dhurāni two burdens (viz. gantha° & vipassanā, study & contemplation) DhA.I, 7; IV, 37; asamadhura J.I, 193; VI, 330. Three dhurā are enumerated at J.IV, 242 as saddhā°, sīla°, and paññā°.- Sdhp.355 (saddhā°), 392 (+viriya), 413 (paññā°) dh °ṃ nikkhipati to take off the yoke, to put down a burden, to give up a charge or renounce a responsibility (see °nikkhepa): nikkhittadhura A.I, 71; II, 148; III, 65, 108, 179 sq.; a° S.V, 197, 225; Nd² 131; SnA 236 (=dhuravant).—3. the forepart of anything, head, top, front; fig. chief, leader, leading part. nāvāya dh. the forecastle of a ship J.III, 127=IV.142; dh-vāta head wind J.I, 100; ekaṃ dh °ṃ nīharati to set aside a foremost part DA.I, 135. ‹-› 4. the far end, either as top or beginning J.III, 216 (yāva dh-sopānā); IV, 265 (dh-sopānaṃ katvā making the staircase end); V, 458 (magga-dhure ṭhatvā standing on the far end or other side of the road, i.e. opposite; gloss BB maggantare); VvA.44 (dh-gehassa dvāre at the door of the top house of the village, i.e. the first or last house).

[Pali to Burmese]

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)

1) dhura—

(Burmese text): (၁) ဝန်၊ ငြိကပ်-တွယ်တာ-မျှော်လင့်-ရည်မှန်း-မှု။ (၂) (ရထား,လှည်း) ထမ်းပိုး (၃) (ဥပေက္ခာ-ဟူသော) ထမ်းပိုး။ (၄) တာဝန်၊ မချွတ်ဆောင်ရွက်ရမည့် တာဝန်။ (၅) ရထားသန်၊ လှည်းသန်။ (၆) အဦး (ရထားဦး လှည်းဦးစသည်)။ (က) ရထားဦး။ (ခ လှည်းဦး။ (ဂ) မြို့ဦး။ (ဃ) စစ်ဦး။ (င) နေရာဦး။ (စ) ပရိဝုဏ်ဦး။ (ဆ) လမ်း-ခရီး-ဦး။ (ဇ) စောင်းတန်းဦ။ (၇) အားထုတ်ခြင်း၊ လုံ့လ။ (၈) ဆင်ဦးကင်း၊ ဆင်ကျောက်ကုန်။ (၉) မြင်းကျောက်ကုန်း။ (၁ဝ) (ရထား၏) အလယ်။ (၁၁) ထမ်း-ရွက်-သယ်-ဆောင်-ချီ-ပိုး-လွယ်-အပ်သော ဝန်၊ ဝန်ထုပ်၊ ဝန်ပိုး။ (၁၂) အကြီးအမှူး ဦးစီးခေါင်းဆောင်နာယက ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ရှေ့သွားရှေ့ဆောင် ရှေ့ရွက်။ (၁၃) ပြဓာန်းသော။ (၁၄) အနီးဖြစ်သော (အရပ်)။ (၁၅) တာဝန်ဖြစ်သော ကုသိုလ်၊ (၁၆) ဝန်ခံအပ်သော ပဋိညာဉ်။ (၁၇) မြဲမြံခိုင်ခံ့ခြင်း။ (၁၈) ရှေးရှူမျက်နှာမူသော။ ရင်ဆိုင်ဖြစ်သော (လေ-စသည်)။ (၁၉) ဝန်ရှိ-ဝန်ဆောင်-သော။ (၂ဝ) အဦး-ရှေ့-အလျင်ဆုံး-ကျသော၊ အကြီး-အကောင်း-အမြင့်-ဆုံးဖြစ်သော။ (၂၁) ပြဓာန်းသည်၏အဖြစ်။ (၂၂) အကြီး-အမှူး-ဦးစီး-ခေါင်းဆောင်-၏အဖြစ် (ဘာဝပ္ပဓာန်)။ (၂၃) သဒ္ဓါ (နှင့်) ပညာ။ (၂၄) မြဲသော၊ (၂၅) ခိုင်ခံ့-မြဲမြံ-သော (ကြိုးစသည်)။ (၂၆) မျက်နှာချင်းဆိုင်ဖြစ်သော။ ဂန္ထဓုရ,ဝိပဿနာဓုရ-တို့လည်းကြည့်။ ဓုရသောပါန-ကြည့်။ ဓုရဂတ-(၂)-ကြည့်။ ရထဝရဓုရဂတ-ကြည့်။ ဓုရဂါမ-(က)-လည်းကြည့်။ ဓုရဂတ-(၁)-ကြည့်။ ဓုရဂေါဏ,ဓောရယှ-တို့လည်းကြည့်။ ဓုရကူဋာဂါရ-လည်းကြည့်။ ဓုရဂ္ဂါဟ-ကြည့်။ ဓုရပဋိပဒါဒိဝိဘာဂ,ဓုရဘေဒ-ကြည့်။ ဓုရဝါတ-ကြည့်။

(Auto-Translation): (1) Duty, responsibility. (2) (train, cart) carrier. (3) (what is called) service. (4) Duty, responsibilities that must not be neglected. (5) Train carrier, cart carrier. (6) Chief (train chief, cart chief, etc.). (a) Train chief. (b) Cart chief. (c) City chief. (d) Military chief. (e) Location chief. (f) Equipment chief. (g) Path-travel chief. (h) Slope chief. (7) Effort, persistence. (8) Elephant head, elephant stone. (9) Horse stone mountain. (10) (of the train) the middle. (11) Easily handled services, service packages. (12) Great leader, commander, guiding leader, forefront. (13) Established order. (14) Nearby (place). (15) Beneficial duty, (16) Obligatory obligation. (17) Firmness and stability. (18) Appearing ancient. Confronted by (wind, etc.). (19) Possessing service. (20) Chief, foremost, brightest, greatest. (21) In the state of being established. (22) In the role of chief leader. (23) Strength and knowledge. (24) Solid, (25) Strong and firm (like a rope). (26) Being face-to-face. Look at the elements of material and wisdom. Observe the phenomena that arise. Watch the arising phenomena (2). Observe the arising nature from the world. Also look at the arising phenomena (1). Look at the good and the noble. Also observe the sacred wisdom. Look at the conveying elements. Look at the divisions of the nature of phenomena, and observe the virtues. Watch the essence.

2) dhura—

(Burmese text): တာဝန်အတွင်း၊ တာဝန်အတောအတွင်း။

(Auto-Translation): Within the responsibility, within the timeframe of responsibility.

3) dhura—

(Burmese text): ဝန်ကို မြှောက်ချီတတ်သော ဝီရိယ။ ဓုရဝန္တု-ကြည့်။

(Auto-Translation): The power that can elevate the body. Look at the divine service.

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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.

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

dhurā (धुरा).—m P (dhūra Extremity of the shafts.) The border or boundary of a village or field. 2 Applied by meton. to the object marking it; as gāṃvacā dhurā hā dhōṇḍāca. 2 fig. Term, prescribed period, assigned limit; as rōkhyācā dhurā, dhurā bharalā, dhuṛyācē tīna haphatē bākī rāhilē. Also by meton. The last instalment or payment. dhuṛyācā-baila-ghōḍā-&c. A thill-bullock-horse &c., a thiller or limmer.

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dhurā (धुरा).—m W (dhurya S or from dhūra) A term used scornfully, and as our Mighty clever fellow, Prodigy &c. See dhurandhara.

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dhūra (धूर).—f (dhur S) The shafts or pole of a cart or carriage. 2 The thill-yoke or the thillers of a team. 3 The instep; and by meton. the part of a shoe or sandal which covers it. 4 (Esp. in poetry. ) The front or fore part. Ex. hāta pasarūṃ aiśā dhurēṃ || jyācēṃ kalpāntīṃ na sarē ||.

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dhūra (धूर).—m (dhūmra S) Smoke. 2 An overlay or a wash (of gold or silver). 3 fig. Absorption or abstract engagedness of and in; as tyācā tyā kāmānta dhūra āhē. 4 fig. Blinding influence of, (the smoke of,) as garvācā-vidyēcā-dhanācā or paikyācā-adhikārācā- dhūra. 5 Sense of heat in a part (as from the pressure of a load or long continuance of a posture). v uṭha, nigha, lāga, hō. 6 Vapor or heated air proceeding from ears, nose, mouth, after eating piquant dishes or spices. 7 Haze, or dusky suffusion over the heavens. v uṭha, nigha, hō. dhūra dēṇēṃ or dākhaviṇēṃ (To fumigate or smoke.) fig. To trick, gull, befool, bamboozle. dhurāvara dharaṇēṃ To harass or torment grievously.

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

dhūra (धूर).—f The pole of a cart or carriage. The instep.

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dhūra (धूर).—m Smoke. An overlay or a wash (of gold or silver).

context information

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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Dhura (धुर).—(At the end of comp.)

1) A yoke, pole.

2) Burden.

3) A pin at the end of an axle &c.; see धुर् (dhur).

Derivable forms: dhuraḥ (धुरः).

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Dhurā (धुरा).—A burden, load; रणधुरा (raṇadhurā) Ve.3.7.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Dhura (धुर).—subst. and adj. (= Pali id.; Sanskrit dhur, both mgs., and dhura, at least meaning 1, in less technical sense), (1) burden, especially religious obligation or duty (in Pali, e.g., gantha, study of texts, vipassanā, reflection, saddhā, sīla, paññā): dhura-(so mss., to be kept; Senart em. [Page286-a+ 71] dhuta-)-buddhinām (sc. of Bodhisattvas) Mahāvastu i.86.2, having their minds occupied with their religious obligations; dhura- dhīrāḥ i.90.13, firm in their religious obligations (also Bo- dhisattvas); pravrājayāmi, śāsane dhuram unnāmayatīti Divyāvadāna 487.28; (2) ifc., best, most excellent (compare [Boehtlingk and Roth] s.v. dhur 3, end): pramadavaradhurā(ḥ) Lalitavistara 326.2 (verse), so read with best ms. for Lefm. °vara madhurā, which is unmetrical(ly) and disproved by Tibetan bu moḥi naṅ na gces mchog, the most excellent and best among girls.

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

Dhurā (धुरा).—f.

(-rā) A burthen, a load. E. dhurbba to hurt, affixes ka and ṭāp .

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

Dhura (धुर).—i. e. dhṛ + a, I. m. A yoke, Mahābhārata 7, 3675. Ii. m. and f. dhurā dhurā, A burthen, Mahābhārata 13, 4879; [Pañcatantra] 26, 3.

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

Dhura (धुर).—[masculine] [feminine] ā load, burden; peg on the axletree (only [masculine]); pole (only [feminine]).

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Dhurā (धुरा).—([instrumental] [adverb]) violently.

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

1) Dhura (धुर):—[from dhur] m. yoke, pole, burden, peg of the axle ([especially] ifc.), [Mahābhārata] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] mfn. having anything as chief (foremost) part or ingredient, distinguished by (ifc.), [Bālarāmāyaṇa i, 11]

3) Dhurā (धुरा):—[from dhura > dhur] a f. burden, load, [Pañcatantra; Kathāsaritsāgara]

4) [v.s. ...] pole, shaft, [Pañcatantra i, 22/23.]

5) b ind. (√dhvṛ) violently, hurtfully, [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa]

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

Dhurā (धुरा):—(rā) 1. f. A burden, load.

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

Dhura (धुर) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Dhura.

[Sanskrit to German]

Dhura in German

context information

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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

1) Dhura (धुर) [Also spelled dhur]:—(a) extreme, remotest; (nm) extremity; —[se] from the outset; from the extreme point; —[ūpara] at the uppermost extreme.

2) Dhurā (धुरा):—(nm) axle, axis; shaft.

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Prakrit-English dictionary

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

1) Dhura (धुर) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Dhura.

2) Dhurā (धुरा) also relates to the Sanskrit word: Dhur.

context information

Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Dhura (ಧುರ):—[noun] an armed conflict between two countries, rival factions, etc.; a war.

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Dhura (ಧುರ):—

1) [noun] a wooden frame that is fixed across the beam of a plough, to be placed on and tied to the neck of oxen, while ploughing; similar part in a bullock-cart; yoke.

2) [noun] the front part of the beam of a bullock cart where the yoke is fixed across.

3) [noun] a pin at the end of the axle of a bullock cart, which keeps the wheel from coming off; a linch-pin.

4) [noun] a responsible and respectable position.

5) [noun] the condition, quality, fact or an instance of being responsible; obligation, accountability, dependability, etc.; responsibility.

context information

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

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Dhurā (धुरा):—n. 1. pole between the yoked animals; 2. axle-tree; axle; 3. shaft; spindle; 4. mob; crowd; gathering; 5. jumbled houses;

context information

Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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