Katutumbi, Kaṭutumbī, Katu-tumbi: 11 definitions

Introduction
In Hinduism
1. Ayurveda
Biology
Languages
1. Marathi
2. Sanskrit
3. Kannada
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Introduction:

Katutumbi means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, 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.

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Kaṭutumbī (कटुतुम्बी) is the Sanskrit name for a medicinal plant identified with Lagenaria siceraria (calabash or bottle gourd or bitter gourd) from the Cucurbitaceae or “gourd family” of flowering plants, according to verse 3.56-57 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. Kaṭutumbī is commonly known in Hindi as Kaṭulaukī or Titalaukī; in Marathi as Kaḍu-Bhopālā; in Gujarati as Kaḍavī-Tumbarī; in Kannada as Kahisore; and in Bengali as Titlal..

Kaṭutumbī is mentioned as having eight synonyms: Kaṭuphalā, Tumbinī, Kaṭutumbinī, Bṛhatphalā, Rājaputrī, Tiktabījā and Tumbikā.

Properties and characteristics: “Kaṭutumbī is pungent (kaṭu-rasa) and sharp (tīkṣṇa). It causes vomiting and helps to relieve asthma and vāta-roga. Cures cough, oedema, colics, wounds and poisoning. It also possesses cleansing property”.

Unclassified Ayurveda definitions

Source: archive.org: Science And Technology In Medievel India (Ayurveda)

Kaṭutumbī (कटुतुम्बी) or Kaṭutumbīkalpa refers to one of the various medicinal preparations described in the Vaidyakalpa, as mentioned in A. Rahman’s Science and Technology in Medievel India: A bibliography of source materials in Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian.—Ancient and medieval India produced a wide range of scientific manuscripts and major contributions lie in the field of medicine, astronomy and mathematics, besides covering encyclopedic glossaries and technical dictionaries.—The Vaidyakalpa is a Sanskrit medical treatise dealing with the treatment of different kinds of medicines [e.g., Kaṭutumbī-kalpa] including those prepared from trees, plants, roots, etc.

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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.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Katutumbi in India is the name of a plant defined with Lagenaria siceraria in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cucurbita leucantha Duchesne (among others).

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

· Species Plantarum. (1805)
· Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club (1896)
· Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève (1825)
· J. Cytol. Genet. (1996)
· Darwiniana (1946)
· Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del Chili (1782)

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

kaṭutumbī (कटुतुंबी).—f (S) Bottle-shaped and bitter gourd, the plant or its fruit.

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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

Kaṭutumbī (कटुतुम्बी).—a kind of bitter gourd.

Kaṭutumbī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kaṭu and tumbī (तुम्बी).

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

Kaṭutumbī (कटुतुम्बी).—f. (-mbī) See the preceding. E. kaṭu pungent, here meaning bitterly so, and tumbī a gourd.

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

Kaṭutumbī (कटुतुम्बी):—[=kaṭu-tumbī] [from kaṭu > kaṭ] f. a kind of bitter gourd, [Suśruta]

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

Kaṭutumbī (कटुतुम्बी):—[kaṭu-tumbī] (mbī) 3. f. A plant.

[Sanskrit to German]

Katutumbi 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kaṭutuṃbi (ಕಟುತುಂಬಿ):—

1) [noun] the vine Lagenaria vulgaris (=L. speciosa, = Cucurbita lagenaria) of Cucurbitaceae family.

2) [noun] its gourd; bitter gourd.

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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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