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कियाम्बु (kiyAmbu)

 
Capeller Eng
English
किया॑म्बु
n.
N.
 of a
cert.
 water-plant.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
किया॑म्बु
m.
 a kind of aquatic plant (= क्या॑म्बू),
RV.
 x, 16, 13.
Monier Williams 1872
English
कियाम्बु कियाम्बु, उ, n., Ved. a kind of
aquatic plant.
Macdonell
English
कियाम्बु kiyā́mbu,
n.
 an aquatic plant.
Lanman
English
kiyā́mbu, n. water-lily, perhaps. [cf. ambu.]
Vedic Reference
English
Kiyāmbu is the name of one of the water-plants which are to
grow, according to a funeral hymn in the Rigveda, ^1 on the place
where the body of the dead was burned. The word seems to
mean ‘having some water, ’ possibly by popular etymology.^2
1) x. 16, 13 = Av. xviii. 3, 6.
2) Cf. Sāyaṇa on Rv., loc. cit., and on
Taittirīya Āraṇyaka, vi. 4, 1, 2, where
Kyāmbu is the form.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 62
Bloomfield, Proceedings of the American
Oriental Society, October, 1890, xl.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
कियाम्बु
त्रि०
 कियदम्बुयत्र वेदे पृषो० तोलोपः । किंप्रमाणा-म्बुयुक्ते “कियाम्ब्वत्र रोहतु पाकदूर्व्वा व्यल्कशा”ऋ० १०, १६, १३, ।
Capeller
German
किया॑म्बु
n.
 N. einer Pflanze.
Grassman
German
kiyā́mbu, n., Bezeichnung einer Wasserpflanze [aus kiya = kíyat und ámbu, wie viel, d. h. viel Wasser habend, oder wie sehr, d. h. sehr oder ganz im Wasser seiend].
-u {842, 13}.