Kantari, Kāntārī, Kāntāri: 4 definitions

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2. Sanskrit
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Kantari means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, biology, Tamil. 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.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kantari in India is the name of a plant defined with Indigofera aspalathoides in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Lespedeza juncea (L.f.) Pers. (among others).

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

· Gardeners Dictionary, ed. 8
· Species Plantarum (1753)

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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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Marathi-English dictionary

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

kāntārī (कांतारी).—m A turner.

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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: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kāntārī (कान्तारी):—[from kāntāra] f. a kind of sugar-cane, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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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.

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Kāntāri (காந்தாரி) noun < Gāndhārī.

1. Name of a princess of Kandahar, mother of Duryōdhana; துரியோதனன் தாய். காந்தாரி கிளையோடின் றே கெடும் [thuriyothanan thay. kanthari kilaiyodin re kedum] (மகாபாரதம் சூதசங்கிதைுபோர். [magaparatham suthupor.] 222).

2. Hard-hearted cruel woman; கொடியவள். [kodiyaval.] (W.)

3. Wiry indigo. See சிவனார்வேம்பு. [sivanarvembu.] (தைலவருக்கச்சுருக்கம் தைல. [thailavarukkachurukkam thaila.] 135.)

4. A principal tubular vessel of the human body, one of taca-nāṭi, q.v.; தசநாடியிலொன்று [thasanadiyilonru] (சிலப்பதிகாரம் அரும்பதவுரை [silappathigaram arumbathavurai] 3, 26, உரை. [urai.])

5. (Music) A specific melody-type.; ஓர் இராகம். [or iragam.] (பரதசாஸ்திரம் இராக. [magaparatham iraga.] 56.)

6. A kind of salt, of burning and acrid nature; சத்திசாரம். [sathisaram.] (W.)

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

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