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Biology (plants and animals)

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

Dida in Sierra Leone is the name of a plant defined with Pennisetum glaucum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Panicum lutescens Weigel (among others).

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

· A Manual of Botany (1840)
· Cytologia (1993)
· Cytologia (1991)
· J. Cytol. Genet. (1990)
· Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. (1977)
· Handbuch des Getreidebaus (1885)

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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

dīḍa (दीड).—a One and a half. dīḍakānācā Deafish; dīḍaḍōḷyācā Blindish; dīḍapāyācā Having one leg shorter than the other; dīḍahātācā Having one mutilated arm or hand.

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

dīḍa (दीड).—a One and half. dīḍakānācā Deafish. dīḍaḍōḷyācā Blindish. dīḍapāyācā Having one leg shorter than the other. dīḍahātā- cā Having one mutilated arm or hand.

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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

Dīda (दीद).—mfn.

(-daḥ-dā-daṃ) Destroying. E. dī, and da who or what gives.

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

Dīda (दीद):—[=dī-da] mfn. causing ruin, destroying, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Dīda (दीद):—[(daḥ-dā-daṃ) a.] Destroying.

[Sanskrit to German]

Dida 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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Dīdā (दीदा):—(nm) an eye; vision; ~[dāvara] a connoisseur, one who can appreciate; ~[de nikālanā] to stare, to cast an angry look; ~[de phāḍanā] to stare, to gaze; ~[de laganā] to be attentive; to concentrate (in some work); ~[de laḍānā] to exchange amorous glances; ~[de kā pānī ḍhala jānā] to be lost to shame.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Diḍa (ದಿಡ):—[adjective] strong; durable; withstanding the physical wear and tear or mental agony.

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Diḍa (ದಿಡ):—

1) [noun] the quality of being strong, durable; strength; durability.

2) [noun] truth; fact.

3) [noun] full confidence; freedom from doubt; assurance; guarantee.

4) [noun] that which is strong.

5) [noun] that which never decays; a permanent thing.

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Dīḍa (ದೀಡ):—[adjective] being one and half (in quantity, number, volume, etc.).

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Dīḍa (ದೀಡ):—[noun] the number,volume or quantity that is equal to, one and half of.

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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: Da, Di, Ti, Ta.

Starts with (+21): Didacatura, Didadamadica, Didadandi, Didagollu, Didagu, Didaka, Didake, Didakem, Didaki, Didamani, Didamar, Didambhishu, Didamdale, Didapamdita, Didar, Didara, Didaru, Didau, Titacali, Titacceyti.

Ends with (+3): Adida, Andida, Badida, Budida, Casmadida, Dalea candida, Dravadida, Faradaya splendida, Forsskaolea candida, Hachchedida, Jadida, Kaleudida, Pacchadida, Padida, Pahaladida, Ran-udida, Sadadida, Shadida, Shidida, Tephrosia candida.

Full-text: Dirghadarshivams, Didhacatura, Divyadarshin, Didha, Didhadamadica, Dirghadanda, Didakem, Pashanda, Antarvedi, Pasand, Didu, Chashm, Didaka, Cashma, Sadadida, Dirghadarshin, Jaham, Andha, Amdha, Di.

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Search found 2 books and stories containing Dida, Di-da, Dī-da, Dīḍa, Dīda, Dīdā, Diḍa; (plurals include: Didas, das, Dīḍas, Dīdas, Dīdās, Diḍas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Triveni Journal

Modernists, Imagists, And Futurists < [September-October 1932]

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Bodhisattvacharyavatara (by Andreas Kretschmar)

Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary (english)

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