ताम्बूलिक

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /t̪ɑːm.buː.lɪk/,

ताम्बूलिक • (tāmbūlik) m

1. alternative spelling of तांबूलिक (tāmbūlik)
   • 1987, Hitesh Singh, बाणभट्ट की कृतियों में वनस्पति‎, page 53:

     ताम्बूलिकों के घरों में इसमें प्रयोग की जाने वाली सामग्री […] का भंडार रहता था

     tāmbūlikõ ke gharõ mẽ ismẽ prayog kī jāne vālī sāmagrī […] kā bhaṇḍār rahtā thā

     In the houses of the betel-sellers, there used to be a stock of the ingredients used in it

From ताम्बूल (tāmbūla, “betel”) +‎ -इक (-ika).

• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t̪ɑːmˈbuː.l̪i.kɐ/

ताम्बूलिक • (tāmbūlika) stem, m (Classical Sanskrit)

1. betelseller (one who sells betel)
   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa
   • c. 200 CE – 300 CE, Vātsyāyana, Kāma Sūtra 1.5.25.1:

     रजकनापितमालाकारगान्धिकसौरिकभिक्षुकगोपालकताम्बूलिकसौवर्णिकपीठमर्दविटविदूषकादयो मित्राणि ।

     rajakanāpitamālākāragāndhikasaurikabhikṣukagopālakatāmbūlikasauvarṇikapīṭhamardaviṭavidūṣakādayo mitrāṇi.

     O washermen, barbers, garland-makers, perfume-vendors, liquor-vendors, mendicants, cowherds, betel-sellers, goldsmiths, companions, sensualists, jesters, etc. and friends

• Prakrit: 𑀢𑀁𑀩𑁄𑀮𑀺𑀅 (taṃbolia) (see there for further descendants)

• Monier Williams (1899) “ताम्बूलिक”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 443, column 1.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “tāmbūlika”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “ताम्बूलिक”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 768
• Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “ताम्बूलिक”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 108
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tāmbūlika”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 329