As a Hindi name
गोधूम · noun · masculine
गेहूँ · नारंगी — Śabdasāgara
गोधूम · godhūm · s.m.
Wheat (see gohūṅ) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 923
गोधूम · masculine
wheat; orange
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi गोधूम — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गोधूम (godhūma). Doublet of गेहूँ (gehū̃), a tadbhava.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
go—dhūma m. (√ gudh, Uṇ.) ‘earth-smoke’, wheat (generally pl.), VS.; TBr. i; ŚBr. v (sg.), xii, xiv; ŚāṅkhŚr.; Mn. &c.
the orange tree, L.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
‘earth-smoke’, wheat (generally pl.), (sg.), &c.
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go—dhūma m. (√ gudh, Uṇ.) ‘earth-smoke’, wheat (generally pl.), VS.; TBr. i; ŚBr. v (sg.), xii, xiv; ŚāṅkhŚr.; Mn. &c.
the orange tree, L.
N. of a medicinal plant, L.
go-dhūma &c. See go, p. 365, col. 1.
godhūma m. (-maḥ) 1 Wheat. 2 The orange. 3 The name of a drug. E. gudha to surround, and ūma Uṇādi aff.
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