Lahu: 8 definitions
Introduction:
Lahu means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit, 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.
Biology (plants and animals)
1) Lahu in Arabic is the name of a plant defined with Withania somnifera in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Physaloides somnifera (L.) Moench (among others).
2) Lahu in India is also identified with Mnesithea laevis It has the synonym Ophiuros perforatus (Roxb.) Trin. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Taxon (1980)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2007)
· Reinwardtia (1953)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Kew Bulletin (1937)
· Observationes Botanicae (1783)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Lahu, for example side effects, chemical composition, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, health benefits, have a look at these references.
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
Pali-English dictionary
lahu : (adj.) light; quick, (nt.) a short; vowel.
Lahu, (adj.) (Sk. laghu & raghu: see etym. under laṅghati) light, quick A. I, 10, 45.—lahuṃ karoti to make light, to be frivolous J. II, 451.—nt. lahuṃ (adv.) quickly Pv IV. 160; Dpvs. I, 53; Mhvs 4, 17.—Usually as lahuka (q. v.).
—citta light-minded S. I, 201; J. III, 73.—ṭṭhāna lightness of body, bodily vigour, good health M. I, 437, 473; D. I, 204; Ud. 15; Miln. 14. (Cp. BSk. laghūtthānatā Divy 156. ) —parivatta quickly or easily changing VbhA. 408. (Page 582)
1) lahu (လဟု) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[ahukā+āpatti．gāthāarāyuea kre．]
[လဟုကာ+အာပတ္တိ။ ဂါထာအရာဖြစ်၍ ရှေ့ပုဒ်တစ်စိတ်နှင့် နောက်ပုဒ်ကြေသည်။]
2) lahu (လဟု) [(bya) (ဗျ)]—
3) lahu (လဟု) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[ahu+kara+(kha) a．laṅgha+u．]
[လဟု+ကရ+(ခ) အ။ လင်္ဃ+ဥ။]
4) lahu (လဟု) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[ahu+parivatta．kye．lahu+ṇika．ṇikapakye．]
[လဟု+ပရိဝတ္တ။ နောက်ပုဒ်ကျေ။ လဟု+ဏိက။ ဏိကပစ္စည်းကျေ။]
5) lahu (လဟု) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[aṅgha+u．laṃgha+ku．laṅghate anenāti lahu,kappadduma．laṅghatīti lahu,laṅgha gatisosanesū,ghassaho niggahitalopoç upaccayoca,lahupariyāyo laghusaddopyatti．,ṭī．4va．(-ṭī．711)．laṃgha gatiso sanesu,ghassa vā hattaṃ,niggahitalopo ca,laṅghati pavattati laghubhāvenāti laghu lahu ekatthā．ṇvādi．6．lahusaddā ho napu,homū nitea．．4va．anitea napu,arhiso a asāramarhisoaç ma--soaniteamū nitea．．929．laghu-saṃ．lahu-prā,addhamāgadhī．]
[လင်္ဃ+ဥ။ လံဃ+ကု။ လင်္ဃတေ အနေနာတိ လဟု၊ ကပ္ပဒ္ဒုမ။ လင်္ဃတီတိ လဟု၊ လင်္ဃ ဂတိသောသနေသူ၊ ဃဿဟော နိဂ္ဂဟိတလောပေါ,ဥပစ္စယောစ၊ လဟုပရိယာယော လဃုသဒ္ဒေါပျတ္တိ။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၄ဝ။ (-ယင်းဋီ။ ၇၁၁)။ လံဃ ဂတိသော သနေသု၊ ဃဿ ဝါ ဟတ္တံ၊ နိဂ္ဂဟိတလောပေါ စ၊ လင်္ဃတိ ပဝတ္တတိ လဃုဘာဝေနာတိ လဃု လဟု ဧကတ္ထာ။ ဏွာဒိ။ ၆။ လဟုသဒ္ဒါဂုဏ်ကို ဟောသော် နပုလ္လိင်၊ ဒြပ်ကိုဟောမူ လိင်သုံးပါး၌ဖြစ်သည်။ ဓာန်။ ၄ဝ။ လျင်မြန်ခြင်းအနက်၌ဖြစ်သော် နပုလ္လိင်၊ အလိုရှိအပ်သော အနက်နှင့် အနှစ်သာရမရှိသောအနက်,မလေး-ပေါ့ပါး-သောအနက်တို့၌ဖြစ်မူ လိင်သုံးပါး၌ဖြစ်သည်။ ဓာန်။ ၉၂၉။ လဃု-သံ။ လဟု-ပြာ၊ အဒ္ဓမာဂဓီ။]
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Sanskrit dictionary
Lahu (लहु).—and lahuka, °ka-tara, adj. (= Pali id., both; MIndic for Sanskrit laghu, once laghuka, Schmidt, Nachträge), light, etc. (mgs. as in Sanskrit): lahu (v.l. laghu) Mahāvastu iii.159.5; lahuṃ Mahāvastu i.222.10 (verse; in parallel ii.24.18 laghu); iii.2.17 (v.l. laghuṃ); best ms. at Suvarṇabhāsottamasūtra 38.11 (for Nobel laghu; end of line of verse); lahukataro Mahāvastu ii.249.11; lahukā-d-ayam iii.54.4 (prose; v.l. laghu°; d Hiatus-bridger).
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
Lahū (लहू):—(nm) blood; ~[lu(lo)hāna] blood-smeared, drenched in blood; blood-stained; —[ubalanā/khaulanā] blood to boil through rage; to simmer; to be red-hot in rage; —[auṃṭanā] to simmer, the blood to boil; —[kā ghūṃṭa pīkara raha jānā] to suppress one’s rage; to endure somebody’s excesses; —[kā pyāsā] bloodthirsty, after one’s blood; —[khuśka kara denā] to be terribly scared; to be stunned still; —[cūsanā] to suck the blood (of), to exploit thoroughly; —[pilākara pālanā] to feed with blood; to rear with great difficulty; —[pīnā] to harass/pester no end, to trouble constantly; —[bolanā] the secret of murder to manifest itself, the murder mystery to be out; —[meṃ nahānā] to be smeared with blood; to be drenched in blood all over; —[meṃ hātha raṃganā] to stain one’s hands with the blood of; —[lagākara śahīda honā] to be a sham martyr, to pose as a martyr; —[sapheda ho jānā] to be lost to human emotions, to become inhumane.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Lahu (लहु) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Laghu.
Lahu has the following synonyms: Lahua.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Ahuka, Angha, Parivatta, U, Ahu, Apatti, Kara.
Starts with (+29): Lahu Sutta, Lahua, Lahuadi, Lahuadivohara, Lahuaia, Lahubhanda, Lahubhara, Lahucitta, Lahucittaka, Lahucivara, Lahudassanasukhattha, Lahugahaniya, Lahugamanasanna, Lahugiprabhu, Lahuhuge, Lahuia, Lahuka, Lahukabhava, Lahukacivaraparibhoga, Lahukadassana.
Full-text (+13): Lahum, Alahu, Lahuparivattaka, Lahukapatti, Lahuparivatta, Dandhalahuparivatti, Cittalahuka, Atilahu, Lahukaduka, Lahukkhara, Lahu Sutta, Lahupavuranasikkhapada, Lahuso, Valhe, Lahuvipassaka, Lahuta, Laghu, Lahuvatti, Lahua, Lahusa.
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Search found 21 books and stories containing Lahu, Ahu-kara-, Ahu-parivatta, Ahuka-apatti, Ahukā-āpatti, Angha-u, Aṅgha-u, Lahū; (plurals include: Lahus, s, parivattas, apattis, āpattis, us, Lahūs). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Propitiation of the lightning spirit in Lahu Nyi: Four texts. < [Volume 38 (1977)]
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Dictionaries of Indian languages (Kosha)
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Page 328 < [Gujarati-Hindi-English, Volume 3]
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