Yavanika, Yavanikā, Yavānikā: 12 definitions

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Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Yavānikā (यवानिका) is another name for Yavānī, a medicinal plant identified with Trachyspermum ammi Linn. or “ajwain” from the Apiaceae or “celery” family of flowering plants, according to verse 6.38-40 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu.—The sixth chapter (pippalyādi-varga) of this book enumerates ninety-five varieties of plants obtained from the market (paṇyauṣadhi). Together with the names Yavānikā and Yavānī, there are a total of sixteen Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

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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) Yavanika in India is the name of a plant defined with Carum copticum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Carum copticum (L.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex C.B. Clarke (among others).

2) Yavanika is also identified with Trachyspermum ammi It has the synonym Ptychotis coptica (L.) DC. (etc.).

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

· Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Umbelliferae (1989)
· Allgemeine Naturgeschichte (1831)
· Mantissa Plantarum (1767)
· The Flora of British India (1879)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2007)
· Phytotherapy Research (2004)

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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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Yavanikā (यवनिका).—

1) A Yavana female, a Greek or Mahomedan woman; यवनी नवनीतकोमलाङ्गी (yavanī navanītakomalāṅgī) Jag; यवनीमुख- पद्मानां सेहे मधुमदं न सः (yavanīmukha- padmānāṃ sehe madhumadaṃ na saḥ) R.4.61; (from dramas it appears that Yavana girls were formerly employed as attendants on kings particularly to be in charge of their bows and quivers; cf. eṣa bāṇāsanahastābhiryavanībhiḥ parivṛta ita evāgacchati priyavayasyaḥ Ś.2; praviśya śārṅgahastā yavanī Ś.6; praviśya cāpahastā yavanī V.5. &c.).

2) A curtain; काञ्चुकीयो यवनिकास्तरणं करोति (kāñcukīyo yavanikāstaraṇaṃ karoti) Pratimā 2; cf. जवनिका (javanikā).

3) A veil; पश्यामस्तावद् रूपसादृश्यम् । संक्षिप्यतां यवनिका (paśyāmastāvad rūpasādṛśyam | saṃkṣipyatāṃ yavanikā).

See also (synonyms): yavanī.

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Yavānikā (यवानिका).—

1) A kind of bad barley; (duṣṭo yavo yavānī).

2) See यवनिका (yavanikā).

3) Ptychotic Ajowan (Mar. oṃvā); यवानी पाचनी रुच्या तीक्ष्णोग्रा कटुका लघुः (yavānī pācanī rucyā tīkṣṇogrā kaṭukā laghuḥ) Bhāva P.

See also (synonyms): yavānī.

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

Yavanikā (यवनिका) or Yamanikā.—f.

(-kā) A screen of cloth surrounding a tent. E. yam to stop or check, aff. lyuṭ, kan added, fem. form; also javanikā .

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Yavanikā (यवनिका).—f.

(-kā) 1. An outer tent, a screen of cloth surrounding a tent or tents. 2. A Yavana woman. E. See javanikā, ja being changed to ya.

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

Yavanikā (यवनिका).—i. e. yavana + ka, f. A curtain, [Bhartṛhari, (ed. Bohlen.)] 3, 51.

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

Yavanikā (यवनिका).—[feminine] curtain (cf. javanikā).

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

1) Yavānikā (यवानिका):—[from yava] a f. Ptychotis Ajowan, [Caraka]

2) Yavanikā (यवनिका):—[from yavanaka > yavana] f. a Yavana woman, [Śakuntalā] ([varia lectio])

3) [v.s. ...] a screen of cloth or a veil, [Kāvya literature; Bhāgavata-purāṇa] (cf. javanikā).

4) Yavānikā (यवानिका):—b See p. 847, col. 3.

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

Yavanikā (यवनिका):—(kā) 1. f. An outer tent.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Yavanikā (यवनिका) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Javaṇiā, Joṇiya.

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Yavanika in German

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Hindi dictionary

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Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Yavanikā (यवनिका):—(nf) a curtain; drop-scene; -[patana] drop curtain.

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