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    Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    p. 154, col. 2.
    aṃbu n. [aṃb-śabde uṇ]

    1 Water; gāṃgamaṃbu sitamaṃbu yāmunaṃ K. P. 10.

    2 The watery element of the blood (cf. imber).

    3 N. of a metre.

    4 A term in astrology (lagnāvadhikaṃ caturthasthānaṃ).

    Comp.

    kaṇaḥ a drop of water.

    kaṃṭakaḥ (short-nosed), alligator.

    kirātaḥ alligator.

    kīśaḥ, kūrmaḥ a tortoise (śiśumāra); particularly Gangetic.

    keśaraḥ lemon-tree (chālaṃgavṛkṣa).

    kriyā libation of water; presentation of water to the Manes of the deceased.

    ga, cara, cārin a. moving or living in water, aquatic (as fish &c.)

    ghanaḥ hail.

    catvaraṃ a lake.

    cāmaraṃ an aquatic plant (śaivāla).

    ja a. produced in water, aquatic (opp. sthalaja); sugaṃdhīni ca mālyāni sthalajānyaṃbujāni ca Rām. (

    jaḥ)

    1 the moon.

    2 camphor.

    3 the Sārasa bird.

    4 the conch

    5 N. of a tree (hijjala). (

    jaṃ)

    1 a lotus; iṃdīvareṇa nayanaṃ mukhamaṃbujena Ś. Til. 3.

    2 the thunderbolt of Indra. °bhūḥ, °āsanaḥ ‘the lotus-born god,’ Brahmā; °āsanā the goddess Lakṣmī.

    janman n. a lotus. (

    m.)

    1 the moon.

    2 the conch.

    3 Sārasa.

    taskaraḥ ‘water-thief’, the sun (whose heat drinks up water).

    tālaḥ = °cāmara.

    da a. giving or yielding water. (

    daḥ)

    1 a cloud; navāṃbudānīkamuhūrtalāṃchane R. 3. 53.

    dhara [dharatīti dharaḥ, aṃbūnāṃ dharaḥ; dhṛac]

    1 a cloud; vaśinaścāṃbudharāśca yonayaḥ Ku. 4. 43; śaratpramṛṣṭāṃbudharoparodhaḥ R. 6. 44.

    2 the plant mustaka.

    3 talc.

    dhiḥ [aṃbūni dhīyaṃte atra; dhā-ki]

    1 any receptacle of waters; such as a jar; aṃbudhirghaṭaḥ Sk.

    2 the ocean; kṣāra° (pb) Bh. 2. 6.

    3 the number four (in Math.). °prasavā N. of a plant ( ghṛtakumārī).

    nidhiḥ ‘treasure of waters’, the ocean; devāsurairamṛtamaṃbunidhirmamaṃthe Ki. 5. 30.

    pa a. drinking water. (

    paḥ)

    1 the ocean.

    2 Varuṇa, the regent of waters; rakṣoṃbupānilaśaśīśapurāṇi cāṣṭau Sid. Śir.

    3 N. of a plant ( cakramardaka).

    patrā N. of a plant ( uccaṭāvṛkṣa).

    paddhatiḥ f.,

    pātaḥ current, flow or stream of water, cascade; gaṃgāṃbupātapratimā gṛhebhyaḥ Bk. 1. 8.

    prasādaḥ, prasādanaṃ [aṃbūni prasādayati] the clearing nut tree (kataka) Strychnos Potatorum (the nuts of this tree are used for purifying water; when rubbed on the inner surface of the vessel, they precipitate the impurities which the water contains; phalaṃ katakavṛkṣasya yadyapyaṃbuprasādakaṃ . na nāmagrahaṇādeva tasya vāri prasīdati).

    bhavaṃ a lotus.

    bhṛt m.

    1 water-bearer, a cloud.

    2 the ocean.

    3 = °patrā q. v.

    4 N. of a plant mustaka.

    5 talc.

    mātraja a. produced only in water. (

    jaḥ) a conch-shell.

    muc m. a cloud; dhvanitasūcitamaṃbumucāṃ cayaṃ Ki. 5. 12.

    rājaḥ

    1 the ocean.

    2 Varuṇa.

    rāśiḥ receptacle or store of water, the ocean; tvayi jvalatyaurva ivāṃburāśau Ś. 3. 3; caṃdrodayāraṃbha ivāṃburāśiḥ Ku. 3. 67, R. 6. 57; 9. 82.

    ruh n.

    1 a lotus.

    2 Sārasa.

    ruhaḥ, haṃ, a lotus; vipulināṃburuhā na saridvadhūḥ Ki. 5. 10. (

    ) N. of the land-lotus plant (sthalapadminī).

    rohiṇī a lotus.

    vācī [aṃbu tadvaṣarṇaṃ vācayati sūcayati] an epithet applied to the earth during four days from the 10th to the 13th in the dark half of the month of Āṣāḍha when it is supposed to be unclean (rajasvalā iva) and agriculture is prohibited; °pradaḥ the 10th day; °tyāgaḥ 13th day.

    vāsinī, vāsī N. of a plant ( pāṭalā), the trumpet flower.

    vāhaḥ [ aṃbu vahatīti]

    1 a cloud; taḍitvaṃtamivāṃbuvāhaṃ Ki. 3. 1; bharturmitraṃ priyamavidhave viddhi māmaṃbuvāhaṃ Me. 99.

    2 a lake.

    3 water-bearer.

    4 the number 17.

    5 a sort of grass.

    vāhin a. carrying or conveying water. (m.)

    1 a cloud.

    2 = mustaka. (

    )

    1 a wooden vessel, a sort of bucket.

    2 a woman fetching water.

    3 N. of a stream.

    vihāraḥ sporting in water.

    visravā = ghṛtakumārī.

    vetasaḥ a kind of cane or reed growing in water.

    śirīṣikā N. of a plant.

    saraṇaṃ flow or (pb) current of water.

    sarpiṇī a leech ( aṃbuni sarpati)

    secanī a wooden baling vessel.