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jetuka

jetuka noun: henna (Lawsonia inermis), as used in Assam.

Noun

jetuka (uncountable)

  1. (India) Henna (Lawsonia inermis), as used in Assam.
    • The leaves of the Jetuka shrub give a red juice when crushed.1949, The Eastern Anthropologist, volume 3, page 74
    • It is a pleasant sight to see a young girl with her blackened teeth, her palms reddened with the juice of jetuka leaves, her head bedecked with orchid, swaying her figure gracefully and singing erotic quatrains […].1965, Praphulladatta Goswami, Folk-literature of Assam, page 8

Origin of jetuka

Borrowed from Assamese জেতুকা (zetuka).

Questions about jetuka

What does jetuka mean?
Jetuka means henna (Lawsonia inermis), as used in Assam.
What part of speech is jetuka?
Jetuka is a noun.

Words near jetuka in the dictionary

  1. jettisons
  2. jetton
  3. jettons
  4. jetty
  5. jettying
  6. jetuka
  7. jetware
  8. jetwash
  9. jetwashed
  10. jetwashes
  11. jetwashing

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