As a Hindi name
पोटगल · noun · masculine
नरसल । नरकट · काश । काँस · मछली — Śabdasāgara
पोटगल · poṭ-gal · s.m.
See s.v. poṭ — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 277
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a species of reed
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Dictionary citations
poṭa—gala m. (only L.) a species of reed
Saccharum Spontaneum
a fish
= pañcajanya.
poṭagala m. (-laḥ) 1 A reed, (Arundo tibialis, Rox.) 2 A sort of grass, (Saccharum spontaneum.) 3 A fish. E. poṭa uniting (with the wind), gala to go, aff. ac, waving in the wind.
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