मन्था (manthA)
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Spoken Sanskrit
English मन्था manthA
मन्था manthA mixed beverage
मन्था manthA cultivated fenugreek [ Trigonella Foenum Graecum - Bot. ]
मन्था manthA churning-stick
Monier Williams Cologne
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EnglishWordnet
Sanskrit मेथिनी, मेथी, दीपनी, बहुपुत्रिका, बोधिनी, गन्धबीजा, ज्योतिः, गन्धफला, वल्लरी, चन्द्रिका, मन्था, मिश्रपुष्पा, केरवी, कुञ्चिका, बहुपर्णी, पीतबीजा
एकस्य क्षुपविशेषस्य बीजम्।
"मेथिन्याः उपयोगः व्यञ्जनरूपेण क्रियते।"
मेथिका, मेथिनी, मेथी, दीपनी, बहुपुत्रिका, बोधिनी, गन्धबीजा, ज्योतिः, गन्धफला, वल्लरी, चन्द्रिका, मन्था, मिश्रपुष्पा, केरवी, कुञ्चिका, बहुपर्णी, पीतबीजा
एकः क्षुपः यस्य पर्णानां शाकं क्रियते।
"सः गृहस्य पृष्ठभागे एकस्मिन् लघुखण्डे मेथिकाम् अवपत्।"
Vedic Reference
EnglishManthā in one passage of the Rigveda^1 seems to mean a
‘churn.’ So the root math denotes to ‘churn’ in the Taittirīya
Saṃhitā.^2 In one passage of the Atharvaveda^3 the word is
used to denote a drink like Mantha.
1) i. 28, 4.
2) ii. 2, 10, 2
Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa,
v. 3, 2, 6
Chāndogya Upaniṣad, vi. 6, 1.
Cf. Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, 1,
161.
3) xx. 127, 9. Scheftelowitz in Khila,
v. 10, 3, reads manthām3 with Pluti,
following the Kaśmīr MS., but mis-
quoting the Atharvan text.
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