मञ्जिष्ठ

Sanskrit

Etymology

From मञ्ज् (mañj, “to cleanse or be bright”)

Adjective

मञ्जिष्ठ • (mañjiṣṭha)

  1. very bright, bright red (as the Indian madder)

References

  • Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0774
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