Biology (plants and animals)

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

Nyama in Burkina Faso is the name of a plant defined with Tapinanthus bangwensis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Loranthus talbotiorum Sprague (among others).

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

· Beskrivelse af Guineeiske planter (1827)
· Flora of Tropical Africa (1910)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1987)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1895)
· Enumeratio Stirpium Plerarumque, quae sponte crescunt in agro Vindobonensi (1762)
· Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Natuurkunde; Tweede Sectie (1933)

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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Nyāma (न्याम).—m., certainly = niyāma, q.v.; § 3.106; this is demonstrated by parallelism of phraseology accom- panying the two words: nyāmaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 6502, following niyāmaḥ, but expl. by Tibetan skyon med pa, lack of defect (as if ni plus āma!), and so Chin.; nyāmāvakrānta (compare use of niyāma with ava-kram in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] and Pali) Mahāvyutpatti 6503, according to Tibetan entered (zhugs pa) into lack of defect; nyāmā- vakrānti-vihāraḥ Bodhisattvabhūmi 358.2, samyaktva-nyāmāvakrānti- prayogavihāraḥ id. 1; bodhisattva-nyāmam avakramya Gaṇḍavyūha 320.22; °mam avakrāmanty Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 272.8, °mam… avakramitukāmena 67.11; °nyāmāvakrāntas (printed °nyāmava°) Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 331.10; read nyāmāvakrāntau 322.5; for Lefm. nyāyākramaṇatāyai Lalitavistara 31.20 and 34.10, read with Wogihara, Lex. 29 nyāmāvakram° (so most mss. in 34.10, and traces of the same in mss. 31.20). All passages are prose.

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

Nyāma (न्याम):—m. = ni-yāma, ni-yama, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Nyamabumu, Nyamachebele, Nyamadadi, Nyamade, Nyamadze, Nyamaganga, Nyamaka, Nyamaradza, Nyamare, Nyamasebele, Nyamati, Nyamayingiya.

Ends with (+5): Agradhanyama, Amangwe emnyama, Bunyamanyama, Hiranyama, Ikhubalo elimnyama, Ilovu-elimnyama, Inkunzi-emnyama, Manyama, Muchunganyama, Mukwashanyama, Mukweshenyama, Munyama, Murumanyama, Murunganyama, Mwamba nyama, Mwilanyama, Mwooza-nyama, Nnumanyama, Sinyamanyama, Umazwenda omnyama.

Full-text: Mwamba nyama, Mwooza-nyama, Niyama, Samsarakaya.

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Search found 1 books and stories containing Nyama, Nyāma; (plurals include: Nyamas, Nyāmas). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

Appendix 1 - The two bodies (kāya) of the Bodhisattva < [Chapter XX - The Virtue of Generosity and Generosity of the Dharma]

Preliminary note on entering into the assurance of Bodhisattva < [IX. Entering into the assurance of Bodhisattva]

I. Position of Bodhisattva (bodhisattvaniyāma) < [IX. Entering into the assurance of Bodhisattva]

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