Tarkari, Tarkārī: 10 definitions

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Tarkari means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Hindi, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Tarkārī (तर्कारी) is another name for Jīmūtaka, a medicinal plant identified with Luffa echinata (bitter sponge gourd or bitter luffa) from the Cucurbitaceae or “gourd family” of flowering plants, according to verse 3.58-60 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The third chapter (guḍūcyādi-varga) of this book contains climbers and creepers (vīrudh). Together with the names Tarkārī and Jīmūtaka, there are a total of nineteen Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

Agriculture (Krishi) and Vrikshayurveda (study of Plant life)

Source: Shodhganga: Drumavichitrikarnam—Plant mutagenesis in ancient India

Tarkārī (तर्कारी) (identified with Clerodendrum phlomidis) is used by certain bio-organical recipes for plant mutagenesis, according to the Vṛkṣāyurveda by Sūrapāla (1000 CE): an encyclopedic work dealing with the study of trees and the principles of ancient Indian agriculture.—Accordingly, “A tree gets destroyed if it is besmeared with the salty water extract of Payasya, Terminalia arjuna and Clerodendrum phlomidis [e.g., Tarkārī] and if scratched by the bone of a hog all over the bark”.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Tarkari in India is the name of a plant defined with Clerodendrum phlomidis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Volkameria multiflora Burm.f. (among others).

2) Tarkari is also identified with Sesbania bispinosa It has the synonym Aeschynomene aculeata Schreb. (etc.).

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

· Icon. Pl. Rar. (1792)
· Supplementum Plantarum (1782)
· Species Plantarum.
· Edinb. Phil. Journ. (1824)
· Glimpses of Cytogenetics in India (1992)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1836)

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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.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Tarkārī (तर्कारी).—f. (-rī) A tree, (Æschynomene sesban.) E. tarka reasoning, to go or affect, affixes aṇ and ṅīp.

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

1) Tarkāri (तर्कारि):—f. = , [Suśruta vi, 17, 49.]

2) Tarkārī (तर्कारी):—[from tarkāri] f. ([gana] gaurādi) Sesbania aegyptiaca, [i, vi]

3) [v.s. ...] Premna spinosa, [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā; xliv, 9/10]

4) [v.s. ...] a kind of gourd, [Nighaṇṭuprakāśa]

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

Tarkārī (तर्कारी):—(rī) 3. f. A tree (Æschynomene sesban).

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Tarkari 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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Hindi dictionary

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Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Tarkari in Hindi refers in English to:—(nf) a vegetable (green or cooked)..—tarkari (तरकारी) is alternatively transliterated as Tarakārī.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Tarkāri (ತರ್ಕಾರಿ):—

1) [noun] the plant Sesbania sesban (= S. aegyptiaca) of Papilionaceae family.

2) [noun] its seed.

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Tarkāri (ತರ್ಕಾರಿ):—[noun] any part of a plant as fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, etc. or the entire plant that is used as food either raw or cooked; a vegetable.

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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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