The Sanskrit term Śilākusuma can be transliterated into English as Silakusuma or Shilakusuma, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

śilākusuma (शिलाकुसुम).—n S Styrax or Benzoin, the resins of Styrax Benzoinum or Styrax officinale. They are confounded with Bitumen or petroleum, and are supposed to exude from rocks or mountain-soil.

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

śilākusuma (शिलाकुसुम).—n-rasa m Styrax or Benzoin.

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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.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Śilākusuma (शिलाकुसुम).—benzoin; व्यस्तशुकनिभशिलाकुसुमः प्रणुदन्ववौ वनसदां परिश्रमम् (vyastaśukanibhaśilākusumaḥ praṇudanvavau vanasadāṃ pariśramam) Ki. 12.5.

Derivable forms: śilākusumam (शिलाकुसुमम्).

Śilākusuma is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śilā and kusuma (कुसुम). See also (synonyms): śilāpuṣpa.

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

Śilākusuma (शिलाकुसुम).—n.

(-maṃ) Storax: see śilāja . E. śilā, kusuma flower.

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

Śilākusuma (शिलाकुसुम):—[=śilā-kusuma] [from śilā] n. storax, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Śilākusuma (शिलाकुसुम):—[śilā-kusuma] (maṃ) 1. n. Storax.

[Sanskrit to German]

Shilakusuma 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: Shila, Kusuma, Cila.

Full-text: Shilapushpa, Shilarasa.

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