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Etymology
Borrowed from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *cintta.[1][2] Compare चुञ्चुरी ~ चुञ्चुली (cuñcurī ~ cuñculī, “game played with tamarind seeds”), तिन्तिडी (tintiḍī, “tamarind”).[3]
Pronunciation
Noun
चिञ्चा • (ciñcā) stem, f (Classical Sanskrit)
- tamarind (tree and fruit)
c. 1500, Bhāva Miśra,
Bhāva Prakāśa 7.3.84.1:
- अश्वत्थचिञ्चात्वक्चूर्णं चतुर्थांशेन निक्षिपेत् ।
- aśvatthaciñcātvakcūrṇaṃ caturthāṃśena nikṣipet.
- Put down the sacred fig, tamarind, cinnamon, pounded sandal by a quarter.
c. 1400 – 1600,
Rājanighaṇṭu 11.162.1:
- चिञ्चा तु चुक्रिका चुक्रा साम्लिका शाकचुक्रिका ।
- ciñcā tu cukrikā cukrā sāmlikā śākacukrikā.
- The tamarind is cukrikā, cukrā, sāmlikā, śākacukrikā.
Declension
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References
- ^ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The Dravidian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 527.
- ^ Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “cintam”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ciñcā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 260
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “चिञ्चा”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 395, column 1.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “ciñcā”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “चिञ्चा”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 707
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “चिञ्चा”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 94