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कुम्ब (kumba)

 
Capeller Eng
English
कु॑म्ब
s.
 a kind of head-dress for women.
Apte
English
कुम्बः [kumbḥ],
Ved.
A kind of head-dress for women (?) कुरीरमस्य शीर्षणि कुम्बं चाधिनिदध्मसि
Av.*
 6.138.3.
The upper part of a club.
बा A thick petticoat.
An enclosure round the sacrificial ground.
Comp.
 -कुरीरःa. kind of head-dress for women.
Apte 1890
English
कुंबः Ved. 1 A kind of head-dress for women (?).
2 The upper part of a club.
बा 1 A thick petticoat.
2 An enclosure round the sacrificial ground.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कु॑म्ब mn. (ifc. f(आ). ) a kind of head-dress for women,
AV.
 vi, 138, 3
the thick end (of a bone or of a club),
TS.
(accord. to some also, ‘the horn or point of anything’).
Monier Williams 1872
English
कुम्ब कुम्ब, अस् or अम् (?), m. or n. (?), Ved.
a kind of head-dress for women
the upper part
or top of a club
(आ), f. a thick petticoat
an en-
closure round a place of sacrifice to prevent profane
intrusion.
Vedic Reference
English
Kumba is mentioned with Opaśa and Kurīra as an ornament
of women's hair in the Atharvaveda.^1 Geldner^2 thinks that,
like those two words, it originally meant ‘horn, ’ but this is
very doubtful. Indian tradition^3 simply regards the term as
denoting a female adornment connected with the dressing of
the hair.
1) vi. 138, 3.
2) Vedische Studien, 1, 131.
3) Sāyaṇa on Av. vi. 138, 3.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 265
Bloomfield, Hymns of the Atharvaveda,
538, 539
Whitney, Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 348
Caland, Über das
vituclle Sūtra des Baudhāyana, 59.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
कुम्ब
त्रि०
 कुवि--अच् । बाहुकुण्ठे (कोपा) जटा० “कुरीरमस्य शीर्षणि कुम्बं चाधिनिदध्मसि” अथ० ६, १३८, ३
Capeller
German
कु॑म्ब Art weiblicher Kopfputz.