Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Nyanga in Sierra Leone is the name of a plant defined with Millettia lane-poolei in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices.

2) Nyanga is also identified with Millettia zechiana It has the synonym Millettia stapfiana Dunn.

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

· Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew (1914)
· Phyto chemistry (2043)
· Journal of Ethno pharmacology (2005)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1907)

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

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Nyaṅga (न्यङ्ग).—

1) A mark, sign.

2) A kind, sort.

3) Disgrace? एतत्तन्न्यङ्गमस्माकमेष सोऽतिमनोरथः (etattannyaṅgamasmākameṣa so'timanorathaḥ) Pratijñā 1.1. इक्ष्वाकुकुल- न्यङ्गभूतो भरतः (ikṣvākukula- nyaṅgabhūto bharataḥ) Pratimā 4.

Derivable forms: nyaṅgaḥ (न्यङ्गः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Nyaṅga (न्यङ्ग).—n.

(-ṅgaṃ) Low abuse. E. nyaṅ, and ga what goes or is. According to Vachaspatya.—m. (-ṅgaḥ) nitarāmañjane E. ni-anja-ghañ .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Nyaṅga (न्यङ्ग).—[masculine] somethiNg cliNgiNg or adheriNg; mark, sign; offensiveness, invective.

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

1) Nyaṅga (न्यङ्ग):—[=ny-aṅga] a etc. See ny-añj.

2) [=ny-aṅga] [from ny-añj] b m. anything inherent in, a mark, sign, [Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa; Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Āpastamba-śrauta-sūtra]

3) [v.s. ...] anything which resembles or is like, a kind of ([genitive case] or [compound]), [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Lāṭyāyana]

4) [v.s. ...] (ifc. having anything as secondary, mentioning it only accidentally, [Śāṅkhāyana-śrauta-sūtra])

5) [v.s. ...] invective, insinuation, sarcastic language, [Nārada-smṛti, nāradīya-dharma-śāstra]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Nyaṅga (न्यङ्ग):—(ṅgaṃ) 1. n. Low abuse.

[Sanskrit to German]

Nyanga 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Anga.

Starts with: Nyanga tigbwele, Nyangala, Nyangata.

Ends with: Anyanga, Evamnyanga, Hiranyanga, Isanyanga, Kunyanga, Lohinyanga, Manyanga, Mukalanyanga, Munyanga, Munyanyanga, Nyanyanga, Pranyanga, Takiamunyanga, Tinyanga, Vishnunyanga, Yajnyanga.

Full-text: Anyangashveta, Anyanga, Nyanga tigbwele, Vishnunyanga, Evamnyanga, Avabhritha, Anj.

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