can anyone help me to know the tamil names

[honeydew]

for jowar,maize,millet is there any site for finding the tamil translations for all cereals and pulses pls suggest me.

[ayeshasadique]

http://www.indianfoodsco.com/Classes/Glossary.htm

[ayeshasadique]

maize - makkacholam
jowar - cholam
bajra - kambu
ragi - kezhvaragu

[honeydew]

thanks for ur immediate reply.
regds
honey

[rsankar]

Anyone tell me these Tamil name...


1. Nirgundi leaves (hindi - samhaalu) (Bot- Vitex negundo) (Eng - Five leaved chaste)

2. Karanja leaves ( hindi - Ditauri) (Bot - Pongamia pinnata) (Eng - Indian beech)

Thanks.

[ayeshasadique]

nirgundi -
tamil name is vellanocchi
also called venmochi
nochi leaves

[ayeshasadique]

karanja is 'pongam' or ponga

[ayeshasadique]

one among their many uses :

used as "kattu" and for "otthadam" in cases of severe back pain.

[rsankar]

Hello ayeshasadique,

Thanks for your reply.

karanja is 'pongam' or ponga

But what is Ponga? I don't heard this....so please tell me the correct tamil name.

[ayeshasadique]

Species identity
Taxonomy
Current name: Pongamia pinnata


Common names

(Arabic) : um al shuur
(Bengali) : karanj, karanja, s[aa]m hoa
(Cantonese) : honge
(English) : Indian beech, karum tree, oil tree, pongam, pongam oil tree, poonga-oil-tree, seashore mempari
(Filipino) : báni
(French) : arbre de pongolote
(Hindi) : kanji, karanj, karanja, papar
(Indonesian) : bangkong, biansu, ki pahang laut, kranji, melapari
(Javanese) : bangkong
(Lao (Sino-Tibetan)) : (do:k) ko:m ko:y, dok kom koi
(Malay) : biansu, kacang kayu laut, malapari, mempare, mempari, pari-pari, pongu
(Nepali) : karanji, karauini
(Sanskrit) : karanj, karanja
(Sinhala) : karanda, kona
(Tamil) : dalkaramcha, ponga, pongam, pungam, punku
(Thai) : khayi, ko:m ko:y, yi-nam
(Trade name) : karanga, pongam
(Vietnamese) : d[aa]y kim, d[aa]y m[aas]u, day lim, day mau, kh[oor], kh[oor]s[aa]m hoa, s[aa]m hoa

Botanic description
Pongamia pinnata is a medium-sized evergreen or briefly deciduous, glabrous shrub or tree 15-25 m high, with straight or crooked trunk 50-80 cm or more in diameter and broad crown of spreading or drooping branches. Bark grey-brown, smooth or faintly vertically fissured. Branchlets hairless with pale stipule scars. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate with long slender leafstalk, hairless, pinkish-red when young, glossy dark green above and dull green with prominent veins beneath when mature. Leaflets 5-9, paired except at end, short-stalked, ovate elliptical or oblong, 5-25 x 2.5-15 cm, obtuse-acuminate at apex, rounded to cuneate at base, not toothed at the edges, slightly thickened. Inflorescence raceme-like, axillary, 6-27 cm long, bearing pairs of strongly fragrant flowers; calyx campanulate, 4-5 mm long, truncate, finely pubescent. Flower clusters at base of and shorter than leaves, to 15 cm long, slender, drooping. Flowers 2-4 together, short-stalked, pea-shaped, 15-18 mm long. Calyx campanulate, 4-5 mm long, truncate, finely pubescent; corolla white to pink, purple inside, brownish veined outside, 5-toothed, standard rounded obovate 1-2 cm long, with basal auricles, often with green central blotch and thin silky hairs on back; wings oblong, oblique, slightly adherent to obtuse keel. Pods borne in quantities, smooth, oblique oblong to ellipsoid, 3-8 x 2-3.5 x 1-1.5 cm, flattened but slightly swollen, slightly curved with short, curved point (beaked), brown, thick-walled, thick leathery to subwoody, hard, indehiscent, 1-2 seeded, short stalked. Seed compressed ovoid or elliptical, bean-like, 1.5-2.5 x 1.2-2 x 0.8 cm, with a brittle coat long, flattened, dark brown, oily. This species has been placed alone in its genus Pongamia, derived from the Malabar local name (pongam). In 1972, S. R. Bennet, an Indian taxonomist gave the pongam a new name, Derris indica (Lamk.) Bennet, but this change has not been generally adopted. The name Derris, derived from Greek, means ‘leather covering or skin’; the specific name ‘indica’ obviously means of India.