Alternative spellings of this word include Pair.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Paira in India is the name of a plant defined with Buchanania lanzan in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Buchanania latifolia Roxb..

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

· Journal of Environmental Biology (2001)
· Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (1963)
· Journal of Tree Sciences (1984)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2000)
· Taxon (1979)

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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

pāīra (पाईर).—m f A tree of the genus Ficus, F. nitida?

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pairā (पैरा).—m R W A day-laborer, a journeyman. 2 A recurring period or season (esp. of fever). 3 See vāragōḷā or irajīka.

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

pāīra (पाईर).—m f A tree.

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pairā (पैरा).—m A day-labourer. A recurring period or season.

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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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

1) Paira (पैर) [Also spelled pair]:—(nm) a foot, leg; footing, footprint; ~[gāḍī] a bicycle; velocipede; —[aḍānā] to intermeddle; to interrupt; —[ukhaḍanā] to be swept off one’s feet, to be routed; —[ūṃce-nice paḍanā] to go astray; to wobble, to totter; —[kī jūtī] utterly contemptuous, of no significance; —[kī dhūla samajhanā] to hold cheap; to treat as unconsequential; —[chūnā] to touch somebody' feet out of respect; to submit; to yield completely; to implore humbly; —[jamanā] to find one’s feet, to be well entrenched, to consolidate one’s position; —[ḍālanā] to interfere, to intermeddle (with); —[toḍakara baiṭhanā] not to move out at all, to keep indoors; to be absolutely idle; to sit in a leg-twisting posture; —[denā] to set foot on; —[na rakhanā, dharatī para] to assume airs, to think no end of oneself; —[pakaḍanā] to implore humbly, to beseech; —[para paira rakhanā] to intermeddle, to defy (somebody); —[pīche na rakhanā] not to withdraw in any case; —[baḍhānā] to step ahead, to pace ahead; to accelerate one’s pace; —[bhara jānā] to be tired out, the feet to be over-strained, to be wearied by walking; —[bhārī honā] (said of a woman) to be pregnant, to be in the family way; —[meṃ meṃhadī lage honā] to walk too slow; to avoid walking on some pretext; —[meṃ sanīcara honā] never to be at rest, to be always on the move; —[rakhane kī jagaha na honā] to be crowded full, not to have room even to stand; —[sonā] one’s foot/feet to go dead/to be temporarily lost to sensation; [pairoṃ ke nīce se jamīna khisaka jānā] to develop cold feet, to be funky, to be dumbfounded; [pairo tale kucalanā/rauṃdanā] to trample over, to crush; [pairoṃ para khaḍe honā ] to stand on one’s own legs; ([kisī ke]) [pairoṃ para calanā] to follow in the footprints of; [pairoṃ meṃ beḍiyāṃ ḍāla denā] to put fetters around one’s feet, to put in bondage.

2) Pairā (पैरा):—(nm) a paragraph, para.

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Prakrit-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary

Paira (पैर) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Vap.

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Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Pairagrapha, Pairai, Pairana, Pairane, Pairani, Pairanu, Pairashuta, Pairava, Pairavam, Pairavamaram, Pairavan, Pairavar, Pairavaracam, Pairavi.

Ends with: Jinapaira, Vippaira.

Full-text: Pairana, Payara, Vap, Jitana, Bayam, Puta, Amgara, Phumkana, Angar, Put, Jamina, Payari, Pair, Pamva, Sira, Shir, Be.

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