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Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Jaṅgalī in the Gujarati language is another name for Māṣaparṇī, a medicinal plant identified with Teramnus labialis from the Fabaceae, or “pea family” of flowering plants, according to verse 3.30-33 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The third chapter (guḍūcyādi-varga) of this book contains climbers and creepers (vīrudh). Other than the Gujurati word Jaṅgalī, there are more synonyms identified for this plant among which twenty-one are in Sanskrit.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

jaṅgalī (जंगली).—a (jaṅgala S) Abounding in trees or bushes: also wild, waste, desert--a place. 2 Wild;--used of all kinds of wood but the Teak, Jack, Blackwood, and a few others. 3 Wild or uncultivated--a plant. 4 Wild, uncivilized, unpolished--a beast, person, people.

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jāṅgaḷī (जांगळी).—m C A cowherd or herdsman.

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

jaṅgalī (जंगली).—a A bounding in trees or bushes- a place. Wild-used of all kinds of wood but Teak, Jack and a few others. Wild or uncultivated-a plant. Wild, uncivilized, unpolished-a person.

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jāṅgaḷī (जांगळी).—m A cowherd.

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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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Jāṅgali (जाङ्गलि).—A snake-charmer.

Derivable forms: jāṅgaliḥ (जाङ्गलिः).

See also (synonyms): jāṅgalika.

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

Jāṅgali (जाङ्गलि).—m.

(-liḥ) A snake-catcher. E. jaṅgala a wilderness, and iñ aff.

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

1) Jāṅgalī (जाङ्गली):—[from jāṅgala] f. Mucuna pruritus, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] for gulī q.v.

3) Jāṅgali (जाङ्गलि):—m. = guli, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Jāṅgali (जाङ्गलि):—(liḥ) 2. m. A snake-catcher.

[Sanskrit to German]

Jangali 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

Jangali in Hindi refers in English to:—(a) savage; wild; beastly: —[janavara] a wild beast; savage..—jangali (जंगली) is alternatively transliterated as Jaṃgalī.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Jaṃgali (ಜಂಗಲಿ):—[adjective] of, relating to, from or living in a forest.

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Jaṃgalijvara (ಜಂಗಲಿಜ್ವರ):—[noun] any of several diseases of tropical forest regions, esp. a severe variety of malarial fever; jungle-fever.

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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.

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Starts with (+35): Jamgalibadami, Jamgalisu, Jangali adrak, Jangali bhendi, Jangali bihin, Jangali chaulai, Jangali chichinda, Jangali chuka, Jangali draksh, Jangali erandi, Jangali jar, Jangali jira, Jangali jiraa, Jangali karaunda, Jangali karonda, Jangali karondaa, Jangali lasoon, Jangali matar, Jangali methi, Jangali palak.

Full-text (+35): Jangalika, Jangula, Hedduruhe, Ranakharada, Jangali jar, Jangali sabgol, Jangali adrak, Jangali pangara, Jangali toot, Jangali jiraa, Jangali chuka, Jangali chichinda, Jangali jira, Jangali matar, Jangali bihin, Jangali sargyoiya, Jangali draksh, Jangalin, Jangali erandi, Jangali karonda.

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