As a Hindi name
हालाहल · noun · masculine
वह प्रचंड विष जो समुद्रमंथन के समय निकला था · महाविष । भारी जहर · एक जहरीला पौधा — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ हलाहल
हालाहल · hālāhal · s.m.
A sort of deadly poison (produced at the churning of the ocean by the gods and demons) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1216
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a kind of lizard
Verified derivationMultiple readings (7)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "hālāhala" is the vocative of "hālāhalā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
hālāhala m. a partic. poisonous plant (the seed of which is said to resemble a cow's teat), Bhpr.
a kind of lizard, L.
a kind of spider, L.
hālāhala n. (rarely m.), a deadly poison prepared from the roots of the above plant, accord. to R. and BhP. produced at the churning of the ocean (cf. halāhala), Kāv.; Suśr.; BhP.
hālāhala n. (-laṃ) A sort of poison: see hāsnahāla. f. (-snā) A small mouse. f. (-lī) Wine, spirituous liquor. m. (-laḥ) A sort of worm or insect, a kind of newt.
hālāhalā f. a kind of small mouse, L.
Alternative readings
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