Biology (plants and animals)

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

Pinya in Philippines is the name of a plant defined with Ananas comosus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Distiacanthus communis (Lam.) Rojas Acosta (among others).

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

· Systema Vegetabilium
· Edwards's Botanical Register, or Flower Garden and Shrubbery (1968)
· An Interpretation of Rumphius’s Herbarium Amboinense (1917)
· Agronomia (1913)
· Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris (1825)
· Anales Ci. Parag. (1919)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Pinya, for example health benefits, diet and recipes, side effects, chemical composition, 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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Pinya (पिन्य).—(?) , m., (meaning unknown) Divyāvadāna 650.9, pinyādhyā-yaḥ, colophon of a section omitted in ed., which only quotes in a note the following: kṛttikāyāṃ jātasya mukhe caturaṅguliḥ (mss. °leḥ) pinyo dakṣiṇato 'syai lomaśaḥ kṛṣṇalohitaḥ.

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

Piṇyā (पिण्या).—f. (ṇyā) Heart-pea, (Cardiospermum haliacacabum.) E. paṇ to praise, ṇyat aff., and i substituted for the radical vowel: see paṇyā.

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

Piṇyā (पिण्या):—f. Cardiospermum Halicacabum, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Piṇyā (पिण्या):—(ṇyā) 1. f. Heart-pea.

[Sanskrit to German]

Pinya 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)

Starts with: Pinyaka, Pinyasa.

Ends with: Sabila-pinya.

Full-text: Sabila-pinya, Pinyaka, Paṇya, Purvabhilapin.

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Search found 2 books and stories containing Pinya, Piṇyā; (plurals include: Pinyas, Piṇyās). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

The Great Chronicle of Buddhas (by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw)

Chapter 19b - The Buddha’s Second Vassa < [Volume 3]

Part 7 - A Brief History of the Royal Lineage of the Bodhisatta < [Chapter 1 - The Story of Sataketu Deva, The Future Buddha]

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The Great Buddhist Emperors of Asia (by Shibani Dutta)

Chapter 7 - King Dhammaceti of Burma (Myanmar) (1471 A.C.–1492 A.C.)

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