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मकक (makaka)

 
Spoken Sanskrit
English
मकक makaka
m.
kind of animal
Monier Williams Cologne
English
म॑कक
m.
(prob.) a kind of animal,
AV.
Monier Williams 1872
English
मकक मकक, अस्, m. in Atharva-veda
VIII. 6, 12 (perhaps a particular kind of animal, or
bleating, lowing, fr. rt. 2. मा).
Vedic Reference
English
Makaka, a word occurring once in the Atharvaveda (viii. 6,
12), may be the name of some unknown animal
but it is
possibly an adjective having some such sense as ‘bleating.’