Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Latarka in India is the name of a plant defined with Allium cepa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Allium ascalonicum auct. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Can. Vet. J., (1977)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Acta Agron. Acad. Sci. Hung., (1980)
· Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany (1996)
· J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc., (1939)
· Am. J. Vet. Res., (1979)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Latarka, for example diet and recipes, extract dosage, health benefits, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, side effects, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Latārka (लतार्क).—a green onion.

Derivable forms: latārkaḥ (लतार्कः).

Latārka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms latā and arka (अर्क).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Latārka (लतार्क).—m. (Sanskrit Lex., green onion, [Boehtlingk and Roth]), onion of some sort: Mahāvyutpatti 5732, among other names for onions; = Tibetan me mo, or, sgre ḥu (meaning?).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Latārka (लतार्क).—m.

(-rkaḥ) A green onion. E. latā a creeper, arka to heat, aff. ghañ .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Latārka (लतार्क):—[from latā] (tār) m. a green onion, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Latārka (लतार्क):—[latā+rka] (rkaḥ) 1. m. A green onion.

[Sanskrit to German]

Latarka in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Lata, Arka.

Ends with: Anukulatarka.

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