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parijat

parijat noun: night jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis).

Noun

parijat (uncountable)

  1. (India) night jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis).
    • ‘What are you betting?’ I looked out of the window. ‘The flowers from the parijat tree.’1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 355
    • In order to completely carry out this bartā, she required a flower from the parijāt tree, a tree that does not grow in the heavenly city of Indra.2008, Michael Charles Baltutis, The Festival of Indra, page 220

Origin of parijat

From Marathi पारिजात (pārijāt).

Questions about parijat

What does parijat mean?
Parijat means night jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis).
What part of speech is parijat?
Parijat is a noun.

Words near parijat in the dictionary

  1. parietotemporal
  2. parietotemporopontine
  3. parietovisceral
  4. parigenin
  5. pariglin
  6. parijat
  7. parijata
  8. Parikh
  9. Parikhs
  10. Parikka
  11. Parikkala

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