The Sanskrit term Śiphāruha can be transliterated into English as Sipharuha or Shipharuha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Shipharuha in India is the name of a plant defined with Ficus benghalensis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ficus cotoneaefolia Hort. ex Miq. (among others).

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

· Species Plantarum
· Enumeratio plantarum (1805)
· Bot. Mat. Med. (1812)
· Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi (1867)
· Plant Systematics and Evolution (1987)

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

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Śiphāruha (शिफारुह).—the (Indian) fig-tree.

Derivable forms: śiphāruhaḥ (शिफारुहः).

Śiphāruha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śiphā and ruha (रुह).

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

Śiphāruha (शिफारुह).—m.

(-haḥ) The Indian-fig tree. E. śiphā a fibrous root, ruha what grows.

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

Śiphāruha (शिफारुह):—[=śiphā-ruha] [from śiphā > śipha] m. ‘growing from fibres which descend to the ground’, the Banyan tree, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Śiphāruha (शिफारुह):—[śiphā-ruha] (haḥ) 1. n. The Indian fig tree.

[Sanskrit to German]

Shipharuha 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: Shipha, Ruha.

Full-text: Ciparukam, Civarukam.

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