As a deity name
Name 783 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
बगला · noun · masculine
[स्त्री॰ बगली] सफेद रंग का एक प्रसिद्ध पक्षी — Śabdasāgara
बगला · noun · masculine
थाली की बाढ़ । अँवठ — Śabdasāgara
बगला · baglā · s.m.
Heron; crane, Ardea torra and putea (in Bengal usually called, by Europeans, 'the paddy-bird,' because of its being commonly found in rice fields) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 162
बगला · masculine
heron
Cited formation "बगला" is बग़ल + -आ: बग़ल means "armpit, oxter, axilla", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "बगला" is बग़ल + -आ: बग़ल means "armpit, oxter, axilla", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, derived from the Sanskrit बक — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Old Hindi बगुला (bagulā), derived from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀩𑀕 (baga), from Sanskrit बक (baka). Cognate with Assamese বগলী (bogoli).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
baka m. (also written vaka) a kind of heron or crane, Ardea Nivea (often fig. = a hypocrite, cheat, rogue, the crane being regarded as a bird of great cunning and deceit as well as circumspection), Mn.; MBh. &c.
Sesbana Grandiflora, L.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
Heron — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
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