Sanskrit word senses marked with lifeform category "Birds"
Parent categories: Vertebrates, Chordates, Animals, Lifeforms, Life, Nature
Subcategories: Birds of prey, Columbids, Fowls, Freshwater birds, Parrots, Perching birds, Poultry
Total 56 word senses
- अर्जुन (Adjective) made of silver
- अर्जुन (Noun) the descendants of Arjuna
- अर्जुन (Noun) the tree Terminalia arjuna
- अर्जुन (Proper name) a male given name commonly used in India
- आति (Noun) the bar-headed goose (Anser indicus)
- उलूक (Noun) owl
- ऋजिप्य (Adjective) something straight-flying, falcon
- कपिञ्जल (Noun) the francoline partridge, heathcock
- कर्कट (Noun) the sign Cancer
- कर्कट (Noun) a particular bird
- कर्कट (Noun) name of several plants
- कर्कट (Noun) the curved end of the beam of a balance (to which the strings supporting the scale are attached)
- कर्कट (Noun) a pair of compasses in a particular position
- कर्कट (Noun) a kind of coitus
- काक (Noun) (imitation of the cawing of the crow), a crow
- काक (Noun) (imitation of the crowing of the rooster)
- काक (Noun) an expression of contempt
- किकि (Noun) blue jay
- कीकि (Noun) blue jay
- कीर (Noun) parrot
- कुक्कुट (Noun) cock, rooster
- कुरर (Noun) osprey, species of eagle
- कोकिल (Noun) a cuckoo
- क्रुञ्च् (Noun) a kind of snipe, curlew
- गरुड (Noun) name of a mythical bird (chief of the feathered race, enemy of the serpent-race, vehicle of विष्णु, son of कश्यप and विनता; shortly after his birth he frightened the gods by his brilliant lustre; they supposed him to be अग्नि, and requested his protection; when they discovered that he was गरुड, they praised him as the highest being, and called him fire and sun)
- गरुड (Noun) the charioteer of the sun or the personified dawn, is said to be the elder or younger brother of गरुड; स्वाहा, the wife of अग्नि, takes the shape of a female गरुडी = सुपर्णी
- गरुड (Noun) name of the attendant of the 16th अर्हत् of the present अवसर्पिणी
- गरुड (Noun) name of the 14th कल्प period
- गृध्र (Noun) a vulture
- घूक (Noun) owl (Pañcad. I, 42, Subh.)
- चकोर (Noun) the Greek partridge (Perdix rufa) fabled to subsist on moon beams
- चक्रवाक (Noun) ruddy shelduck
- चातक (Noun) Jacobin cuckoo, Clamator jacobinus (Śak., Ragh., Megh., etc.)
- जटायु (Noun) bearded vulture, lammergeier, ossifrage (Gypaetus barbatus)
- जाङ्गल (Adjective) made of arid wood, coming from wild deer
- तित्तिर (Noun) partridge
- तित्तिरि (Noun) partridge
- दूरदर्शन (Noun) Semantic loan from English television.
- नव (Adjective) or with a past participle in the sense of "newly, just, lately"
- नव (Noun) crow
- पेचक (Noun) owl
- फिङ्गक (Noun) species of shrike; a small fork-tailed bird
- बुलबुल (Noun) nightingale; bulbul
- मयूर (Noun) peacock (YV., MBh., etc.)
- मेधाविन् (Noun) a parrot
- वर (Adjective) eldest (W.)
- वर (Noun) saffron (BhP.) (in compounds not always separable from the homographic word meaning "enclosing, etc")
- वाट (Noun) a species of bird
- विहार (Noun) delighting in
- शारि (Noun) a particular bird (commonly called myna, either Gracula religiosa or Turdus salica)
- शुक (Noun) parrot (RV.)
- श्येन (Noun) a hawk, falcon or eagle
- हंस (Noun) a goose, gander, swan, flamingo (or other aquatic bird, considered as a bird of passage)
- हंस (Noun) sometimes a mere poetical or mythical bird, said in Rigveda to be able to separate Soma from water, when these two fluids are mixed, and in later literature, milk from water when these two are mixed
- हंस (Proper name) name of a Deva-gandharva
- हंस (Proper name) name of a son of Vasu-deva
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