The Sanskrit term Śuṇṭa can be transliterated into English as Sunta or Shunta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Sunta in India is the name of a plant defined with Zingiber officinale in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Curcuma longifolia Wall (among others).

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

· The Gardeners Dictionary (1754)
· Zingiberaceae
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1807)
· Cytologia (1985)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· Bull. Bot. Survey India (1972)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Sunta, for example health benefits, side effects, diet and recipes, 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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

śuṇṭa (शुंट) [or शुंठ, śuṇṭha].—c A blockhead, clodpate, dolt.

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suntā (सुंता).—f ( A) Concision of the prepuce, circumcision.

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

śuṇṭa (शुंट) [-ṭha, -ठ].—c A blockhead, dolt.

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suntā (सुंता).—f Circumcision.

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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

Śuṇṭa (शुण्ट).—The hair under the arm-pit.

Derivable forms: śuṇṭam (शुण्टम्).

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

Śuṇṭa (शुण्ट):—n. the hair under the arm-pit, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Śuṃṭa (ಶುಂಟ):—[noun] = ಶುಂಠ [shumtha]2.

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Suṃṭa (ಸುಂಟ):—

1) [noun] a block-head; a stupid fellow.

2) [noun] an abstinate, adamant man.

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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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Starts with: Shuntan.

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