Lemma: piṇḍa (mn)
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- (esp.) a ball of rice or flour etc. offered to the Pitṛs or deceased ancestors (MW)
- a ball (MW)
- a bite (MW)
- a portico or particular part of a house (MW)
- a roundish lump of food (MW)
- a Śrāddha oblation (MW)
- an army (MW)
- any round or roundish mass or heap (MW)
- any solid mass or material object (MW)
- bodily frame (MW)
- button (MW)
- clod (MW)
- daily bread (MW)
- food (MW)
- force (MW)
- globe (MW)
- knob (MW)
- livelihood (MW)
- lump (MW)
- morsel (MW)
- mouthful (MW)
- piece (MW)
- power (MW)
- subsistence (MW)
- the body (MW)
- the calf of the leg (MW)
- the flower of a China rose (MW)
Nominal forms
Word semantic annotations
Concept | Notes | Count |
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ball | a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" | 110 |
body | the entire physical structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" | 16 |
piṇḍa | a ball sacrificed during Śrāddha | 12 |
Śrāddha | ceremony in honour and for the benefit of dead relatives observed with great strictness at various fixed periods and on occasions of rejoicing as well as mourning by the surviving relatives | 10 |
piṇḍatālaka | a kind of orpiment | 6 |
Sapiṇḍa | a kinsman connected by the offering of the Piṇḍa to certain deceased ancestors at the Śrāddha | 3 |
ball | any object with a spherical shape; "a ball of fire" | 3 |
hunk | a large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread" or "a lump of coal" | 3 |
tumor | an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose | 2 |
beggary | a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | 2 |
kalka | [medic.] a kind of kaṣāya; "paste made by rubbing a plant" (MNid, 453) | 1 |
growth | (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | 1 |
myrrh | aromatic resin used in perfume and incense | 1 |
fragment | a piece broken off of something else; "a fragment of rock" | 1 |
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