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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Valbhana (वल्भन).—

1) Eating.

2) Food.

Derivable forms: valbhanam (वल्भनम्).

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

Valbhana (वल्भन).—n.

(-naṃ) 1. Eating. 2. Food. E. valbh to eat, aff. lyuṭ .

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

Valbhana (वल्भन).—n. Eating, food.

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

1) Valbhana (वल्भन):—[from valbh] n. the act of eating, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] food, [Horace H. Wilson]

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

Valbhana (वल्भन):—(naṃ) 1. n. Eating; food.

[Sanskrit to German]

Valbhana 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Valbhana (ವಲ್ಭನ):—

1) [noun] the act of eating.

2) [noun] any substance taken into and assimilated by a plant or animal to keep it alive and enable it to grow and repair tissue; nourishment; food.

3) [noun] any of the times, esp. the customary times, for eating, as breakfast, lunch or dinner; meal.

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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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