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mahwa

mahwa is the alternative form of mahua.

Meaning of mahua

Noun

mahua (plural mahuas)

  1. Madhuca longifolia, a fast-growing Indian tropical tree cultivated for its oleaginous seeds.
    • When the Mannewars, another forest tribe of the Central Provinces, pick the flowers of the mahua tree (Bassia latifolia), they worship the tree and offer it some of the liquor distilled from the new flowers, along with a fowl and a goat.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 119
    Synonyms:
    iluppai, mowra butter tree

Forms of mahwa

pluralmahwas

Questions about mahwa

What is mahwa the alternative form of?
Mahwa is the alternative form of mahua.

Words near mahwa in the dictionary

  1. mahurats
  2. Mahurin
  3. Mahurins
  4. mahus
  5. mahusive
  6. mahwa
  7. Mahwah
  8. mahwas
  9. mahzor
  10. mahzorim
  11. mahzors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mahwa (page history and authors); mahua (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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