The corpus record — Sanskrit

vallī

fenugreek

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Katha Upanisad 5 · 23.19/10k
Taittiriya Upanisad 1 · 1.89/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. ثَللَ-

valla- m eine Weizen-Art (VarBrS, u a), vellaka- m eine Hülrsenfrucht (Yas), vallarn- f "fenugreek’ (Bhävapr), dazu auch lex valäta- m ‘Phascolus mungo’? - Vgl pkt vella- m ‘a Kind of grain’, vala- f “millet‘, nep bälo 'sar of com’, ua (Tu 1142Sf, TuAdd !1428af} - Nicht klar yallaki-f cinc Art Laute (cp +), vallari-, vallikı-T ein bestimmtes Musik-Instrument (buddh) - Pä vallakı-, pkt vallarf eine Art Laute - Nicht … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. valla-, p. 496]

2. ثَلل

vall ( prob. artificial; cf. √ val and vell) cl. 1. P. vallate, ‘to be covered’ or ‘to go’, Dhātup. xiv, 21.

3. vallī

vallī f. (or valli, q.v. ) a creeper, creeping plant (often fig. applied to arms, eyebrows, lightning &c.), Mn. ; MBh. &c.

4. vallī

N. of various other plants ( esp. = ajamodā, kaivartikā, and cavya), L.

5. vallī

(only ī) N. of the sections of partic. Upaniṣad s ( e.g. of the Kaṭha )

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