Nikurumba: 9 definitions
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Sanskrit dictionary
Nikurumba (निकुरुम्ब).—A flock, collection, mass, multitude; लतानिकुरुम्बम् (latānikurumbam) Gītagovinda 11. किरण° (kiraṇa°) Ā. L.2; चिकुर° (cikura°) 43.
Derivable forms: nikurumbam (निकुरुम्बम्).
See also (synonyms): nikuramba.
Nikurumba (निकुरुम्ब).—n.
(-mbaṃ) A flock or multitude: also nikurumbaka E. ni before, kur to divide or cut, affix ambac, and u substituted for the penultimate; also read nikurumbha.
Nikurumba (निकुरुम्ब).—n. A multitude, [Gītagovinda. ed. Lassen.] 11, 5.
Nikurumba (निकुरुम्ब).—[masculine] [neuter] multitude.
Nikurumba (निकुरुम्ब):—([Viddhaśālabhañjikā]) m. or n. a flock, mass, multitude.
Nikurumba (निकुरुम्ब):—[ni-kurumba] (mbaṃ) 1. n. A flock or multitude. Also nikurumbakaṃ.
Nikurumba (निकुरुम्ब):—n. Menge [Amarakoṣa 2, 5, 40.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1412.] latā [Gītagovinda 11, 5.] [Daśakumāracarita 44, 20.] nikuramba [Halāyudha 4, 1.] auch die v.l. in H. und [Gītagovinda] und [Śabdakalpadruma] giebt nach [Amarakoṣa] gleichfalls diese Form, nicht die mit u. sa yoginīnāṃ nikurambaḥ [KĀŚĪKH. 44, 68.] ākīrṇapuṣpa [Matsyapurāṇa 167, 32.] cikura, kiraṇa [Ānandalaharī 43. 20] [?(nach AUFRECHT, bei HAEB.] aber nikurumba und nikurūmba). nīlotpalanikurumbakaiḥ [KĀŚĪKH. 20, 94.] — Zerlegt sich allem Anschein nach in 1. ni + ku .
Nikurumba (निकुरुम्ब) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṇiuraṃba.
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
Nikuruṃba (ನಿಕುರುಂಬ):—[noun] an assemblage of people; a crowd; a multitude.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Kurumba, Mi, Ni.
Starts with: Nikurumbaka.
Full-text: Nikuramba, Nikurumbaka, Niuramba.
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