अम्बा

Nepali

Pronunciation

Noun

अम्बा • (ambā)

  1. guava

Synonyms

  • अम्बक (ambak), बेलौती (belautī)

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

अम्बा f

  1. Devanagari script form of ambā (“mummy”)

Declension

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Noun

अम्बा (ambā)

  1. Devanagari script form of ambā, which is ablative singular of अम्ब (amba, mango)
  2. Devanagari script form of ambā, which is nominative/vocative plural of अम्ब (amba, mango tree)

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Related to अम्बी (ambī, mother).

Pronunciation

Noun

अम्बा • (ambā́) stem, f

  1. a mother, good woman (as a title of respect)

Declension

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Proper noun

अम्बा • (ambā) stem, f

  1. (Hinduism) name of Hindu goddess Durga
  2. name of a daughter of a king of Kasi in Mahabharata

Declension

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References

  • Monier Williams (1899), अम्बा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 83/2.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 100
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