Tharu, Thāru: 10 definitions
Introduction:
Tharu means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, 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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Biology (plants and animals)
1) Tharu in India is the name of a plant defined with Borassus flabellifer in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pholidocarpus tunicatus (Lour.) H. Wendl. (among others).
2) Tharu is also identified with Clausena pentaphylla It has the synonym Clausena pentaphylla DC..
3) Tharu is also identified with Prunella vulgaris It has the synonym Brunella vulgaris L. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Tekhno-Bot. Slovar. (1820)
· Botanica Acta (1997)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· Species Plantarum
· Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1985)
· Linzer Biologische Beiträge (1997)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Tharu, for example chemical composition, diet and recipes, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, health benefits, side effects, have a look at these references.
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
Pali-English dictionary
tharu : (m.) the hilt or handle of a weapon.
Tharu, (Sk. tsaru) the hilt or handle of a sword or other weapons, a sword A. III, 152; J. III, 221 (=sword); Miln. 178; DhA. II, 249 (°mūla); IV, 66 (asi°).—tharusmiṃ sikkhati to learn the use of a sword Vin. II, 10; Miln. 66.
—ggaha one who carries a sword-(handle) Miln. 331 (dhanuggaha+; not in corresponding list of occupations at D. I, 51);—sippā training in swordsmanship Ud. 31. (Page 308)
tharu (ထရု) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[thara+u．khaggachurikādīnaṃ muṭṭhiyaṃ tharu-saddo．thara satthagatiyaṃ,u．,ṭī．391．tara+u=ku．tara taraṇeç tassatho,taratīti tharu=khaggāvayavo．ṇvādi．6．tarati etenāti tharu,tara taraṇeti dhātuto u-paccayavasenaç ta-kārassa catha-kārādesavasena rūpasiddhi veditabbā．atha vā thariyati santharitvā thapiyatīti tharu,thara santharaṇeti dhātu,thara satthagatiyampi dhātuvasenapi saddabyuppattivattabbā．cattālīsa-ni,sarabhaṅga-,ṭī．pe．(taru-saṃ)]
[ထရ+ဥ။ ခဂ္ဂဆုရိကာဒီနံ မုဋ္ဌိယံ ထရု-သဒ္ဒေါ။ ထရ သတ္ထဂတိယံ၊ ဥ။ ဓာန်၊ ဋီ။ ၃၉၁။ တရ+ဥ=ကု။ တရ တရဏေ,တဿထော၊ တရတီတိ ထရု=ခဂ္ဂါဝယဝေါ။ ဏွာဒိ။ ၆။ တရတိ ဧတေနာတိ ထရု၊ တရ တရဏေတိ ဓာတုတော ဥ-ပစ္စယဝသေန,တ-ကာရဿ စထ-ကာရာဒေသဝသေန ရူပသိဒ္ဓိ ဝေဒိတဗ္ဗာ။ အထ ဝါ ထရိယတိ သန္ထရိတွာ ထပိယတီတိ ထရု၊ ထရ သန္ထရဏေတိ ဓာတု၊ ထရ သတ္ထဂတိယမ္ပိ ဓာတုဝသေနပိ သဒ္ဒဗျုပ္ပတ္တိဝတ္တဗ္ဗာ။ စတ္တာလီသ-နိပါတ်၊ သရဘင်္ဂ-ဇာတ်၊ ဋီ။ ပေ။ (တရု-သံ)]
[Pali to Burmese]
tharu—
(Burmese text): (၁) (သန်လျှက် 'ဓားလွယ်' စသော) ဓားလက်နက်။ ထရုသိပ္ပ-(က)-လည်းကြည့်။ (၂) (က) (သန်လျှက် 'ဓားလွယ်'စသော) ဓားလက်နက်၏-အမင်း-အရင်းပိုင်း။ ထရုသိပ္ပ-(ခ)-လည်းကြည့်။ (ခ) (သန်လျှက်-စသော) ဓားလက်နက်၏ အရိုး၊ သန်လျှက် 'ဓားလွယ်'ရိုး၊ ဓားရိုး။ (ဂ) ကြေးမုံ-မှန်-ရိုး။ ဒန္တမယထရု-ကြည့်။ (၃) (သန်လျှက်-စသော) ဓားလက်နက် အတတ်၊ ဓားခုတ်-လှံထိုး-အတတ်။ ဟတ္ထိ-လည်းကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (For example, 'dagger') weapon. Also see Treuthip (a). (2) (a) (For example, 'dagger') weapon's sharp end. Also see Treuthip (b). (b) (For example) weapon's blade, sharp 'dagger' edge, knife edge. (c) Silver - square - edge. Refer to Dantamayah Treuthip. (3) (For example) weapon skill, dagger thrusting - stabbing skill. Also see Hatthe.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
tharū (थरू).—m or tharūṃ n C (tsaru S) A handle, haft, hilt, helve.
tharū (थरू).—m-rūṃ n A handle.
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
Tharu (थरु).—(= Pali id.; § 2.9), hilt of a sword; sword: (dha-nusmiṃ vā) tharusmiṃ vā Mahāvastu ii.74.3; in Mahāvastu iii.366.2 (verse) read tharu-khaḍga-pāṇi, for text tara°, with Pali Jātaka (Pali) v. 136.24 tharu-khagga-baddhā.
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.
Prakrit-English dictionary
Tharu (थरु) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Tsaru.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Nepali dictionary
Thāru (थारु):—n. Tharu (a Nepali nationality);
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with (+15): Darukadali, Taru, Taru-maraypecu, Taru-nilaikottam, Taru-nirapancaram, Taru-payccikattu, Taru-taraykili, Taruca, Tarucam, Tarucappalli, Tarucaram, Tarucu, Tarucurru, Tarukani, Tarukanmai, Tarukannan, Tarukari, Tarukatpam, Tarukattu, Tarukavinacini.
Full-text (+162): Taru, Kancanatharukhagga, Acitaru, Tharusippa, Kattarava, Kattarva, Tharudanda, Gurau, Tharuggaha, Dantamayatharu, Natakattaru, Tharumula, Tarukkottam, Tarukurumpu, Tacataru, Callapattaru, Tarucaram, Taru-nirapancaram, Vacantataru, Calantaru.
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Search found 25 books and stories containing Tharu, Thara-u, Tharū, Thāru; (plurals include: Tharus, us, Tharūs, Thārus). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Kailash: Journal of Himalayan Studies
The Anthropology of the Tharus: An Annoted Bibliography < [Volume 17, Number 3-4 (1995)]
Tharus of Dang: The People and the Social Context < [Volume 8, Number 3-4 (1981)]
Part 10 - Recent Trends in Tharu Religious Life < [Tharus of Dang: Tharu Religion]
World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research
Ayurvedic plant uses by Kathuria and Dangauria Tharus, Sohelwa. < [2017: Volume 6, July issue 7]
Ethnomedicines used by kochila tharu tribes living near bara district of nepal < [2017: Volume 6, November issue 14]
Ethnomedicinal herbs for oral health in northern Parsa, Nepal. < [2020: Volume 9, December issue 15]
Household Vulnerability to Flood Disasters among Tharu Community, Western Nepal < [Volume 14, Issue 19 (2022)]
Domestic Socioeconomic Barriers to Hydropower Trading < [Volume 11, Issue 7 (2019)]
Community Development for Bote in Chitwan National Park, Nepal < [Volume 15, Issue 3 (2023)]
Some novel folk treatments among the tribes of uttar pradesh < [Volume 18 (issue 3-4), Jan-Jun 1999]
Anti microbial activity of the various leaf extracts of Vitex negundo Linn. < [Volume 27 (issue 4), Apr-Jun 2008]
Ulcer treatment with medicinal plants in rural Uttar Pradesh, India < [Volume 21 (issue 3), Jan-Mar 2002]
International Ayurvedic Medical Journal
Ayurvedic and ethano botanical perspectives of chirabilva (holoptelea integrifolia planch) < [2013, Issue 3 May-June]
Phytotherapy treatment for diabetic patients in uttar pradesh, india < [2014, Issue V Sep-Oct]
Effect of palashbeejadi avaleha and kampillaka avaleha in the management of udara-krimi in children: a comparative clinical trial < [2022, Issue 08 August]
Studies in Ethnobotany of ‘Nath’ of Bundelkhand region (by Praveen Kumar Khare)