Alternative spellings of this word include Lapet.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Lapeta in India is the name of a plant defined with Desmodium gangeticum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Meibomia gangetica Kuntze (among others).

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

· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1994)
· Fl. Kouy-Tcheou (1914)
· Methodus (Moench) (1794)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1805)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1798)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)

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

lapēṭa (लपेट).—m f ( H) A covering or coating around (as of cloth, leather, mud, paint). 2 f Girth, circumference, compass. 3 A coup de soleil; a withering blast from a hot wind; also a nipping or blasting stroke of cold wind; an attack as of an epidemic. v yē. 4 An epidemic or a general disorder. 5 Artful involution or ambiguity of speech; prevarication or quibble. v māra. lapēṭīkhālīṃ nēṇēṃ To bear away or shuffle off artfully (a question, a surmise &c.)

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lapēṭā (लपेटा).—m (lapēṭa) A covering or coating around (as of cloth, leather, mud, paint). 2 ( H) Glass-bracelets having gold or silver thread wound around, them.

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

lapēṭa (लपेट).—m f A coating around. f Compass. Prevarication.

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lapēṭā (लपेटा).—m See lapēṭa Glass bracelets.

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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

Lapeta (लपेत):—m. Name of a demon presiding over a [particular] disease of children, [Pāraskara-gṛhya-sūtra]

[Sanskrit to German]

Lapeta 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

1) Lapeṭa (लपेट) [Also spelled lapet]:—(nf) a fold, twist; winding, turn; ambiguity; involvement, embroilment; striking range; ~[dāra] ambiguous; involved; folded, twisted, having windings/turns.

2) Lapeṭā (लपेटा):—(nm) fold, twist; winding, turn.

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Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Lapeṭā (लपेटा):—n. pl. of लपेटो [lapeṭo]

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Lapetana, Lapetanem, Lapetani.

Ends with: Jaralapeta, Mahalapeta, Malapeta, Phalapeta.

Full-text: Jaralapeta, Lapetica, Laga, Lapeti, Lag, Lapet, Bina.

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