Garda, Gārḍa: 8 definitions

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Garda means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, biology. 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.

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Biology (plants and animals)

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

Garda in India is the name of a plant defined with Ardisia solanacea in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Icacorea solanacea Britton (among others).

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

· Flora of Bermuda (1918)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1806)
· Plants of the Coast of Coromandel (1795)
· Nova Flora Japonica (1943)
· Flora Indica (1832)

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

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

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

garda (गर्द).—a Thick, dense.

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Garda (गर्द).—gardati exult.

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Garda (गर्द).—[adjective] ardent, eager.

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

Garda (गर्द):—[from gard] mf(ā)n. crying (? cf. galda; ‘hungry’ [Scholiast or Commentator]), [Taittirīya-saṃhitā iii, 1, 11, 8.]

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Garda 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.

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Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Garda (गर्द) [Also spelled gard]:—(nf) dirt, dust; ~[khora] dustabsorbing; —[gubāra] dust and dirt; —[baiṭha jānā] the dust to be settled.

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Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Gārḍa (गार्ड):—n. a guard;

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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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