As a Hindi name
लेह · noun · masculine
लेहन करनेवाला (को॰) · खाना । आहार । भोजन (को॰) · ग्रहण का एक भेद जिसमें पृथ्वी की छाया (या राहु) सूर्य या चंद्रबिंब को जीभ के समान चाटता हुआ जान पड़ता है — Śabdasāgara
लेह · noun · masculine
लोध नामक वृक्ष । विशेष दे॰ 'लोध' — Śabdasāgara
लेह · leha · s.m.
Licking, sipping tasting — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 976
लेह
Leh (a city, the co-capital of Ladakh, India)
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
one who licks, a licker, sipper (madhuno lehaḥ, ‘sipper of honey’, a bee)
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Dictionary citations
leha m. one who licks, a licker, sipper (madhuno lehaḥ, ‘sipper of honey’, a bee), Bhaṭṭ.
anything to be taken by licking or sipping or sucking, an electuary, syrup, Suśr.
food, L.
N. of one of the 10 ways in which an eclipse can take place, VarBṛS.
leha lehana &c. See p. 903, col. 1.
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