आलुक

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit आलुक (āluka). By surface analysis, आलु (ālu) +‎ -क (-ka). Doublet of आलू (ālū) and आलु (ālu).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɑː.lʊk/,

आलुक • (āluk) m

1. (rare, formal) a potato

आलुक • (āluk) m

1. name of Śeṣanāga

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “आलुक”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha

Derived from आलु (ālu) +‎ -क (-ka).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɑː.lu.kɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.l̪u.kɐ/

आलुक • (āluka) stem, m

1. a kind of ebony

आलुक • (āluka) stem, n

1. the esculent root of Amorphophallus campanulatus (elephant foot yam)
2. (New Sanskrit) a potato
3. Synonym of आरुक (ā́ruka, “the fruit of a medicinal plant growing on the Himalayas”)

आलुक • (āluka) stem, m

1. name of Śeṣanāga

• Monier Williams (1899) “आलुक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 154, column 1.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “āluka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press