Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kark in Pakistan is the name of a plant defined with Calotropis procera in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Apocynum syriacum S.G. Gmel. (among others).

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

· Contributions to the Botany of India (1834)
· Autonomic & Autacoid Pharmacology (2007)
· A Numerical List of Dried Specimens (8217)
· Les Figures des Plantes et Animaux d'Usage en Medecine (1764)
· Species Plantarum, ed. 4
· Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (1980)

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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kark (कर्क्).—1 P. To laugh (a Sautra root).

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

Kark (कर्क्):—(a Sautra root), to laugh.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kark 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

Kark in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm); —[rashi] cancer—the sign of zodiac; —[rekha] tropic of cancer..—kark (कर्क) is alternatively transliterated as Karka.

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Starts with (+290): Kar-kantupanakam, Kar-kattavelalar, Kar-kattiitaiyar, Kar-kattumotiram, Kar-kulimakkal, Kark-bendu, Kark-madhana, Karka, Karkaataka-shringi, Karkabhashya, Karkaca, Karkacam, Karkacandeshvaritantra, Karkacandreshvaratantra, Karkacha, Karkachirbhati, Karkachirbhiti, Karkacirbhati, Karkacirbhita, Karkacirbhiti.

Full-text: Karka, Kark-madhana, Kulakarkati, Kark-bendu, Karkataka.

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Heimskringla (by Snorri Sturlson)

Part 55 - Earl Hakon's Death < [Chapter VI - King Olaf Trygvason's Saga]

Part 56 - Earl Hakon's Head < [Chapter VI - King Olaf Trygvason's Saga]

Part 53 - Earl Hakon's Flight < [Chapter VI - King Olaf Trygvason's Saga]

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