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mortar meaning in Sanskrit

उलूखल ulū́khala

UK/ˈmɔːtə/

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Australia/ˈmoːtə/

mortar in Sanskrit: उलूखल (ulū́khala). In English, mortar means a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.

Sanskrit words for mortar

mortar
उलूखल ulū́khala

English meaning of mortar

  1. noun A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
  2. noun A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
  3. noun A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
  4. noun A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.

Full definition of mortar

mortar in a sentence

  • The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.

Synonyms of mortar

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Questions about mortar in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of mortar in Sanskrit?
Mortar in Sanskrit is उलूखल (ulū́khala).
mortar इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Mortar: उलूखल (ulū́khala).
What does mortar mean in English?
Mortar means a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.

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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “mortar”: उलूखल. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: mortar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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