Moga, Mōga: 8 definitions

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Moga 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.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Moga in Southern Africa is the name of a plant defined with Acacia mellifera in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Inga mellifera (Vahl) Willd. (among others).

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

· Kew Bulletin (1956)
· Vocabulaires of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa. (1904)
· The Akamba in British East Africa. (1920)
· The Kikuyu and Kamba of Kenya. (1953)
· Hildegarde Hinde,
· Ethnology of A-Kamba and Other East African Tribes. (1910)

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

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

mōga (मोग).—m A germ, sprout, shoot.

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mōgā (मोगा).—m The suyarā or pōgī (spike-form fruit-stalk) of the Cocoanut. 2 The kōma or fungus which sometimes forms within a cocoanut.

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

mōga (मोग).—m A germ, sprout.

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mōgā (मोगा).—m The suyarā or spike of the Cocoanut.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Moga (मोग).—A disease like chicken-pox.

Derivable forms: mogaḥ (मोगः).

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

Moga (मोग):—m. the chicken-pox or some similar disease, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Moga 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.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Moga (ಮೊಗ):—

1) [noun] the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin; the face.

2) [noun] the mouth.

3) [noun] the point toward which something faces; direction.

4) [noun] the place or position directly before a person or thing; front.

5) [noun] confidence in oneself, one’s own abilities, etc.; self-confidence.

6) [noun] the act or an instance of beginning; commencement.

7) [noun] the front portion of anything.

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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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