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अन्यवाप (anyavApa)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
अन्यवाप anyavApa
m.
kokila or Indian cuckoo
अन्यवाप anyavApa
m.
sowing for others i.e. leaving his eggs in the nests of other birds
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अन्य—वाप॑
m.
‘sowing for others’ i.e. ‘leaving his eggs in the nests of other birds’, the kokila or Indian cuckoo,
VS.
Goldstucker
English
अन्यवाप Tatpur. m. (-ः) (ved.) The Kokila or Indian
cuckoo (lit.: who sows for others, i. e. who gets eggs which
are hatched by the crow
comp. अन्यभृत् &c. E. अन्य and वाप.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
अन्यवापः
पुं*
अन्य-वापः -
कोयल
L R Vaidya
English
anya-vApa {% m. %} the Kokila or Indian cuckoo.
Vedic Reference
English
Anya-vāpa (‘sowing for others’). The cuckoo is so called^1
from its habit of depositing its eggs in the nests of other birds
1) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 37
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 14, 18.