Papadi, Pāpaḍī: 5 definitions

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Papadi means something in 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.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Papadi in India is the name of a plant defined with Pavetta indica in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ixora indica Baill. (among others).

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

· Nucleus (1987)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ (1768)
· Hist. Pl. (Baillon) (1880)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1988)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1986)

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

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

pāpaḍī (पापडी).—f (pāpaḍa) A thin crisp cake made of rice-flour and spices, and fried. 2 The cream or film on the surface of boiling sugarcane-juice: also a pat formed of this cream (molasses) skimmed. 3 A pavement of flat stones. 4 A pat of wheaten flour and molasses fried.

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pāpāḍī (पापाडी).—f Commonly and properly pāpaḍī.

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

pāpaḍī (पापडी).—f A thin crisp cake made of rice- flour and spices, and fried.

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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.

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Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

1) Papaḍī (पपडी):—(nf) a thin crust, incrustation/encrustation, scurf, scale, scab; flake; thin cakes of wheat, gram, etc.; ~[dāra] incrusted, encrusted; scurfy, scaled, scabby; flaky; ~[] see ~[dāra].

2) Pāpaḍī (पापडी):—(nf) a kind of sweet; small round thin salted and crisp cakes made of ground flour or maida:.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Pāpaḍi (ಪಾಪಡಿ):—[noun] = ಪಾಪಟೆ [papate]2.

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Pāpaḍi (ಪಾಪಡಿ):—[noun] = ಪಾಪಟೆ [papate]2.

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Pāpaḍi (ಪಾಪಡಿ):—[noun] a variety of silk fbric.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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