Biology (plants and animals)

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

Sukhavasa in India is the name of a plant defined with Citrullus lanatus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cucumis laciniosus Eckl. ex Schrad. (among others).

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

· Uses of plants by the Indians (1991)
· Catalogus Seminum et Sporarum in Horto Botanico Universitatis Imperialis Tokyoensis (1915)
· Prodr. Flora Capensis, being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal (1800)
· Prodromus Plantarum Capensium (1794)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Africae Australis Extratropicae (1826)

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

sukhavāsa (सुखवास).—m (S) Residence during one's own pleasure. See sukhavastī. 2 Happy or comfortable residing or abiding.

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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

Sukhavāsa (सुखवास).—a water-melon.

Derivable forms: sukhavāsaḥ (सुखवासः).

Sukhavāsa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms sukha and vāsa (वास).

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

Sukhavāsa (सुखवास).—[masculine] a pleasant abode.

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

1) Sukhavāsa (सुखवास):—[=sukha-vāsa] [from sukha > sukh] 1. sukha-vāsa m. a pleasant or comfortable abode ([accusative] with √vas, ‘to live pleasantly at a place’; with √dā, ‘to receive hospitably in one’s house’), [Rāmāyaṇa; Hemādri’s Caturvarga-cintāmaṇi]

2) [v.s. ...] mfn. one who has lived comfortably at a place, [Rāmāyaṇa]

3) [v.s. ...] 2. sukha-vāsa mfn. ‘sweet-smelling’, a water-melon, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Sukhavasa 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.

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Partial matches: Sukha, Vasa, Vaca.

Starts with: Sukhavasana.

Full-text: Sukha, Vasa.

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