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    alābu

    See also alābuḥ, alāvuḥ.

    Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 74.
    alābu f. (-buḥ) A long gourd. See the next word.

    Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 57, col. 2.
    alābu (buḥ) 2. f. A long gourd.

    Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 54, col. 1.
    alābu alābu, f. A long gourd, a

    gourd-bottle, Man. 6, 54.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    ☞ p. 86, col. 2.
    alābu a-lābu, us or ū, ūs, f. (fr. a, ‘not,’

    and lab, ‘to sink?’), the bottle-gourd, Lagernaria

    Vulgaris Ser; (us, u), m. n. a vessel made of the

    preceding. —Alābu-pātra, am, n. a jar made of the

    bottle-gourd. —Alābu-maya, as, ī, am, made of a

    bottle-gourd. —Alābū-kaṭa, am, n. the down of the

    bottle-gourd.
    ☞ p. 1182, col. 2.
    Alābu; add — (u), n. the fruit of the Alābu.

    Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 43.
    alā́bu (alā́°bū) f. the bottle gourd; m. n. a vessel made of the b. g.

    Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 29, col. 1.
    alābu alā́bu, °bū -bū, f. gourd; m. n. its
    fruit; gourd-bottle; -maya, a. made of a
    gourd.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 94, col. 3.
    alā́bu f. the bottle-gourd (Lagenaria Vulgaris Ser), Suśr. &c.
    ☞ p. 94, col. 3.
    alā́bu mn. a vessel made of the bottle-gourd, AV. &c.
    ☞ p. 94, col. 3.
    (used by Brāhmanical ascetics), Mn. vi, 54; Jain.
    ☞ p. 94, col. 3.
    alā́bu n. the fruit of the bottle-gourd, MBh. ii, 2196, &c.

    Śabdasāgara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 61, col. 1.
    alābu

    f. (-buḥ) A long gourd. See the next word.

    Burnouf Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français

    ☞ p. 50, col. 2.
    alābu alābu et alābū f. cucurbita lagenaris, gourde, bot.

    Stchoupak Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français

    ☞ p. 83, col. 2.
    alābu- f. courge; m. nt. assiette taillée dans une courge; nt. courge (fruit).

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 460.
    alā́bu (°vu)

    1) f. auch °bū́ UṆ. 1, 87. P. 4, 1, 66, Vārtt., Sch. die Flaschengurke, Lagenaria vulgaris Ser. AK. 2, 4, 5, 21. H. 1155 (nach dem Sch. auch n.) alāvvā iva rūpeṇa SUŚR. 1, 264, 3. alāvurbhinnaviṭkā tu rūkṣā 216, 12. 65, 14. alāvuvījāni 2, 517, 14. 1, 24, 20. 363, 4. alābuvīṇā eine Laute in Gestalt einer Flaschengurke LĀṬY. 4, 2, 1 in Ind. St. 1, 187, N. 1.

    — 2) m. n. ein daraus gemachtes Gefäss: àlābûnābhiṣìñcet AV. 8, 10, 30. KAUŚ. 29. 39. M. 6, 54 (yatipātra). dient zum Schröpfen SUŚR. 1, 40, 4. 39, 17.

    ☞ vol. 5, p. 1054.
    alābu

    1) n. die Frucht: majjantyalābūni śilāḥ plavante MBH. 2, 2196. °vīṇā ŚIKṢĀ 28 in Ind. St. 4, 355.

    Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 117, col. 3.
    alā́bu f. (auch °bū) Flaschengurke ; m. n. die Frucht und ein daraus verfertigtes Gefäss (auch zum Schröpfen gebraucht).

    Cappeller Sanskrit Wörterbuch

    ☞ p. 30, col. 1.
    alā́bu (auch °bū) f. Flaschengurke; m. n. die Frucht ders. u. ein Gefäß daraus (zum Schröpfen).

    Vācaspatyam

    ☞ p. 410, col. 2.
    alābu is an alternate of alābū. alā(bu)bū strī na lambate na + labi—u ṇit nalopaśca vṛddhiḥ .
    (lāu), tumbyām . vā ūṅi . alābūścātra . “alābūṃ
    varttulākārāṃ vārtākuṃ kundasannibhām smṛtiḥ” .

    The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 38.
    Alābu. — The bottle-gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Vessels

    made of it are referred to in the Atharvaveda.1 [Footnote] 1) viii. 10, 29. 30; xx. 132, 1. 2. Cf. alāpu in Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iv. 2, 13.

    The Purāṇa Index

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 116.
    Alābu — gourds unfit for śrāddha.

    Vi. III. 16. 8.