Nagarika, Nāgarika: 19 definitions
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Nagarika means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, the history of ancient India, Marathi, 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.
Alternative spellings of this word include Nagrik.
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India history and geography
Nāgarika.—(HD), chief of the police. See Vikramorvaśīya, V (after verse 4); Daśakumāracarita, II, pp. 58-59. The Vaijayantī explains the word as Kārāpati, the superintendent of jails. (ASLV), the chief bailiff or prefect at Vijayanagara. See also Ghoshal, H. Rev. Syst., pp. 95-96. Cf. Nagara-rakṣin, etc. Note: nāgarika is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary” as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.
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Biology (plants and animals)
Nagarika in the Sanskrit language is the name of a plant identified with Euphorbia neriifolia L. from the Euphorbiaceae (Castor) family having the following synonyms: Euphorbia edulis, Euphorbia pentagona. For the possible medicinal usage of nagarika, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.
Nagarika in India is the name of a plant defined with Euphorbia neriifolia in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Tithymalus edulis (Lour.) H. Karst. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Taxon (1981)
· FBI (1887)
· Plantae Novae Hispaniae. (1893)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschapen (1790)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Nagarika, for example diet and recipes, health benefits, extract dosage, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, side effects, have a look at these references.
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Pali-English dictionary
nāgarika : (adj. & n.) belonging to a city; urbane; polite; a citizen.
Nāgarika, (adj.) (Sk. nāgarika) citizen-like, urbane, polite DA. I, 282. (Page 349)
nāgarika (နာဂရိက) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[nagara+ṇika．rū．nhā．224．nīti,sutta．764．(ṇāgaria-prā)]
[နဂရ+ဏိက။ ရူ။နှာ။၂၂၄။နီတိ၊သုတ္တ။၇၆၄။ (ဏာဂရိအ-ပြာ)]
[Pali to Burmese]
nāgarika—
(Burmese text): မြို့၌-ယှဉ်-ဖြစ်-နေ-မွေးဖွား-သော သူ။ (က) မြို့သား။ (ခ) မြို့သူ။ နာဂရိကိတ္ထီ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): A person born in the city. (a) City dweller. (b) City person. Look at the Greek language.
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.
Marathi-English dictionary
nāgarika (नागरिक).—a S Relating to a city or town; urban, oppidan.
nāgarika (नागरिक).—a Relating to a city or town; urban.
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
Nāgarika (नागरिक).—a. [nagare bhavaḥ vuñ]
1) Town-bred, town-born.
2) Polite, courteous, courtly; नागरिकवृत्त्या संज्ञापयैनाम् (nāgarikavṛttyā saṃjñāpayainām) Ś.5; साधु आर्य नागरिकोऽसि (sādhu ārya nāgariko'si) V.2.
3) Clever, shrewd, cunning (vidagdha).
-kaḥ 1 A citizen.
2) A polite or courteous man, a gallant, one who shows exaggerated attention to his first mistress while he is courting some one else.
3) One who has contracted the vices of a town.
4) A thief.
5) An artist.
6) The chief of the police; V.5; Ś.6.
7) A city-superintendent; cf. नागरिक- प्रणिधिः (nāgarika- praṇidhiḥ) Kau. A.
8) A kind of coitus; ऊरुमूलोपरि स्थित्वा योषिदूरुद्वयं रमेत् । ग्रीवां धृत्वा कराभ्यां च बन्धो नागरको मतः (ūrumūlopari sthitvā yoṣidūrudvayaṃ ramet | grīvāṃ dhṛtvā karābhyāṃ ca bandho nāgarako mataḥ) || Ratimañjarī.
9) (pl.) planets opposite to each other.
-kam 1 Dry ginger. (-rikam) The toll levied from a town.
See also (synonyms): nāgaraka.
Nāgarika (नागरिक).—i. e. nagara + ika, I. adj. Inhabiting a town, Sch. ad. [Śākuntala, (ed. Böhtlingk.)] [distich] 51. Ii. m. 1. A citizen, [Vikramorvaśī, (ed. Bollensen.)] 77, 12. 2. Polite, [Śākuntala, (ed. Böhtlingk.)] 60, 2. 2. A superintendent of the police, [Daśakumāracarita] 195, 13.
Nāgarika (नागरिक).—[adjective] urbance, polite; [masculine] citizen.
1) Nāgarikā (नागरिका):—[from nāgaraka > nāgara] f. Name of a female slave, [Mālavikāgnimitra]
2) [v.s. ...] dry ginger, [Suśruta]
3) [v.s. ...] a kind of metre, [Colebrooke]
4) Nāgarika (नागरिक):—[from nāgara] mfn. born or living in a town, civic, [Kāvya literature; Purāṇa]
5) [v.s. ...] polite, courtly, [Śakuntalā] (cf. -vṛtti, below)
6) [v.s. ...] clever, cunning, [Pañcatantra]
7) [v.s. ...] m. inhabitant of a town, ([especially]) chief of a t°, police-officer, [Śakuntalā] ([v.l] raka)
8) [v.s. ...] n. the toll raised from a t°, [Pāṇini 4-3, 75 [Scholiast or Commentator]]
Nāgarika (नागरिक):—(von nagara)
1) adj. a) städtisch, in der Stadt wohnend; subst. Städter: nāgarikāraṇyajanayoḥ saṃbandho nopapadyate [Scholiast] zu [Śākuntala 51.] [Daśakumāracarita] in [Benfey’ Chrestomathie aus Sanskritwerken 180, 14. 188, 15.] bala [187, 4.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 83, 10.] [Vikramorvaśī 77, 12.] [Mārkāṇḍeyapurāṇa 8, 50.] — b) von einer Stadt einkommend; n. viell. Stadtabgabe [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 3, 75,] [Scholiast] — c) höflich, artig: nāgarikavṛttyā saṃjñāpayainām [Śākuntala 60, 2.] — d) gewandt, klug, gerieben [Pañcatantra ed. orn. I, 26.] —
2) m. Stadthaupt, Polizeimeister [Śākuntala 73, 1.] — Vgl. nāgaraka .
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Nāgarika (नागरिक):—
1) adj. f. ā (könnte auch zu nāgaraka gezogen werden) a) [Kathāsaritsāgara 124, 162. fg.] [Sāhityadarpana 173, 5.] nāgarikāḥ (= gūrjaryaḥ) striyaḥ [Oxforder Handschriften 217,b,16.] — c) nāgarikokti [Kathāsaritsāgara 71, 28.] vṛtta [Oxforder Handschriften 215,b,23.] m. ein höflicher —, feingebildeter Städter [216,a,31.] [Spr. 2990.] — d) zu streichen, da die Stelle zu c) gehört; vgl. [Spr. 4227.] —
2) [Daśakumāracarita] in [Benfey’ Chrestomathie aus Sanskritwerken 195, 13.]
Nāgarika (नागरिक):——
1) Adj. — a) städtisch , in der Stadt wohnend. — b) höflich , artig. —
2) m. — a) Städter , insbes. ein höflicher , fein gebildeter. — b) Stadthaupt , Polizeimeister. —
3) *n. Stadtabgabe.
Nāgarika (नागरिक) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Ṇāgaria, Ṇāgariā.
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
Nāgarika (नागरिक) [Also spelled nagrik]:—(a) civil; civilian; urbane; (nm) a citizen; civilian; —[adhikāra] civilian rights, citizenship rights; ~[tā] citizenship; civility.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Nāgarika (ನಾಗರಿಕ):—[adjective] of or living in a city, city-life, city customs, etc.
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Nāgarika (ನಾಗರಿಕ):—
1) [noun] a man living in a city.
2) [noun] a clever, intelligent man.
3) [noun] a member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalisation and is entitled to full civil rights.
4) [noun] a man who promotes amusements for a king or a man of rank, by keeping his company.
5) [noun] a deceitful man; a cheat.
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Nāgarīka (ನಾಗರೀಕ):—[noun] = ನಾಗರಿಗ [nagariga].
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
Nāgarika (नागरिक):—adj. of/relating to a city; urban; n. citizen;
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.
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Partial matches: Nika, Niga, Nakara, Nagara.
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