Names of Plants in India :: Bengali name of Elaeagnus conferta Roxb.

Dinesh Valke

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Oct 1, 2014, 10:56:59 AM10/1/14

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Dear Bengali-knowing friends,

Please help with the name "guara" in native script - name given for Elaeagnus conferta Roxb. This name is used in some of n-e Indian languages too.

Reference: North Eastern Institute of Folk Medicine

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Dinesh

surajit koley

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Oct 1, 2014, 1:00:44 PM10/1/14

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This is again a tricky question Dinesh Sir!

Prain and Roxburgh recorded it as GUARA, Voigt none, Piddington as GWARA,

Using the present day practice it will be গুয়ারা or following Piddington গ্বারা the later having no meaning and very unlikely.

Since this is found in North Bengal (as per Bengal Plants) I am thinking if the name can be derived from GAUR Bengal. Maybe Usha Di or Sourav can help.

Thank you

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Dinesh Valke

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Oct 1, 2014, 1:35:12 PM10/1/14

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Many many thanks Surajit ji. I trust your analysis.

Indeed most of the transcribed names are tricky - 1) typo, 2) listing name from one language for another, 3) name known to only a particular region, and so on. But I think it is better we discuss and attempt to thrash OR resolve such ambiguities.

Will wait for validating comments.

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Dinesh

surajit koley

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Oct 1, 2014, 1:44:45 PM10/1/14

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Yes Dinesh Ji, will be waiting for Usha Di, Sourav....

Thank you and good night....

Ushadi Micromini

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Oct 1, 2014, 4:04:44 PM10/1/14

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Well, Dinesh you do find unusual stuff, I am glad . ANd Surajit you are diligent.

Dr. Kalipada Biswas and Ekkodi Ghosh list it as E. latifolia Linn.

and give bangla name same as : গুয়ারা what Surajit typed above , and they do mention that it also grows in chattagram area and Kumayun ( hills, i guess) and that there is a kumayun name: মীজহাণলা as in mij-hanla.

I trust Ekkodi mahashay and Dr Biswas... they were both at the Royal Bot garden as our Shibpur Bot G was known then ....

Hope this helps

Usha di

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surajit koley

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Oct 1, 2014, 10:01:18 PM10/1/14

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Thank you Didi. I remember SUPARI is also GUA and as per Voigt Areca triandra is BON-GUA; A. gracilis RAM-GUA; Acacia farnesiana = GUA-BABLA.

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Dinesh Valke

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Oct 1, 2014, 10:36:19 PM10/1/14

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Thank you very much Usha di and Surajit for validating the name, and giving it in Bangla script.

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Dinesh

Sourav Mahmud

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Oct 1, 2014, 10:59:51 PM10/1/14

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We have only E. latifolia which Known as Bon-Jara, Loh-baroi, Mirica-tenga, Kambong (Magh)

Dinesh Valke

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Oct 1, 2014, 11:19:24 PM10/1/14

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Thanks Sourav ji for these names.

I thought these names Bon-Jara and Mirica-tenga are in Assamese; Loh-baroi and Kambong in some other north-eastern languages.

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Dinesh

J.M. Garg

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Oct 1, 2019, 8:18:29 AM10/1/19

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Taking this for Elaeagnus latifolia L. in view of discussions under thread: Confusion in Elaeagnus species in Flora of Peninsular India

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Dinesh Valke

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Oct 1, 2019, 8:48:42 AM10/1/19

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Thanks Garg ji.

Will revise my notes accordingly in short time.

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Dinesh

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