Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

tilaka तिलक – Tilaka, forehead mark

adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Dictionary sources

AYI dictionary substantive neuter

Tilaka, forehead mark

Derived from

  1. tila तिल substantive masculine — sesame
  2. ka क suffix — formative suffix -ka
Cappeller 1891 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

tilaka ·m. N. of a tree; freckle, mole, spot under the skin; coloured mark, esp. on the forehead either as an ornament or a sectarian distinction (also n.); the ornament or pride of (--°).

Monier-Williams 1872 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

Tilaka, as, m. a species of tree with beautiful flowers, (so called either because it is similar in some way to the sesamum plant, or because it is used as an ornament like the mark on the forehead); a plant growing near water; a freckle, a natural mark under the skin (compared to a seed of sesamum); a kind of eruption of the skin; (as, am), m. n. a mark or marks made with coloured earths, sandal-wood, or unguents, upon the forehead and between the eyebrows, either as an ornament or a sectarial distinction; the ornament of anything (used in comp. to express greatness or distinction, e. g. trailokya-tilaka, the ornament of the three worlds, i. e. a distinguished personage); (as), m. the burden of a song, = dhruvaka; a species of horse; N. of a son of Pra-dyota; N. of a prince of Kampanā; (ā), f. a kind of necklace; (am), n. the bladder; the lungs; black sochal salt, a factitious salt containing sulphur and iron &c.; a disease, the appearance of dark spots on the skin, unattended with inflammation; alliteration; a kind of metre consisting of four lines of six syllables each; [cf. ūrdhva-tilakin, eṇa-tilaka, kha-t˚, vasanta- t˚.]

Petersburger 1855 substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

tílaka (von tila) gaṇa sthūlādi zu P. 5,4,3. m.n. TRIK. 3,5,14. 1〉 m. ein best. schönblühender Baum AK. 2,4,2,20. TRIK. 3,3,25. H. an. 3,49. MED. k. 99. MBH. 1,4868. MBH. 3,10043. HARIV. 12673. R. 2,91,48. R. 2,94,9. R. 3,7,10. R. 3,21,16. R. 3,76,13. R. 5,39,2. (pramadayā) āliṅgitastilaka utkalito bhavati ad KUMĀRAS. 3,26. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 28,6. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 53,37. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 53,50. eine best. am Wasser wachsende Pflanze VARĀH. BṚH. S. 54,21. = maruvaka RATNAM. 203. Der Baum hat seinen Namen entweder daher, dass er mit der Sesampflanze irgend eine Aehnlichkeit hat, oder dass er wie das Stirnzeichen eine Zierde bildet; vgl. tilakāṃstilakāniva MBH. 3,11591. RAGH. 9,40. KUMĀRAS. 3,30. MĀLAV. 40. Auch andere Namen des Stirnzeichens sind zugleich Namen des Baumes; vgl. viśeṣaka, mukhamaṇḍanaka, puṇḍra, puṇḍraka, bhālavibhūṣaṇasaṃjña. — 2〉 m. Mal, dunkler Fleck unter der Haut (mit einem Sesamkorn verglichen) AK. 2,6,1,49. TRIK. H. 618. H. an. MED. KATHĀS. 5,32. KATHĀS. 5,33. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 49,9. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 51,10. eine Art Hautausschlag MED. — 3〉 ein mit farbigen Stoffen als Zierde (insbes. bei Frauen und zwar hier immer auf der Stirn) oder als Sectenzeichen auf der Stirn oder andern Theilen aufgetragener Fleck H. 653. m.n. AK. 2,6,3,24. AK. 3,4,3,22. MED. m. H. an. n. TRIK. zu belegen nur m. MBH. 3,11591. sa nirghṛpyāṅguliṃ rāmo dhaute manaḥśiloccaye . cakāra tilakaṃ tasyā lalāṭe ruciraṃ tadā .. R. 2,96,18. R. 5,36,34. RAGH. 9,40. MĀLAV. 40. KUMĀRAS. 3,30 (zugleich Bed. 1). KUMĀRAS. 7,24. KATHĀS. 9,81. KATHĀS. 16,31. fg. VARĀH. BṚH. S. 104,28. SĀH. D. 56,4. SĀH. D. 60,1. vihīnatilakeva strī nottarā dikprakāśate (ohne Sonne) R. 3,22,8. KATHĀS. 6,112. KATHĀS. 20,50. ŚRUT. 44. nirmalamalayajatilakaniveśa (bei Kṛṣṇa) GĪT. 11,29. BHĀG. P. 5,9,16. dvādaśatilakayuktaḥ (als frommer Mann) PAÑCAT. 165,16. BHAVIṢYA-P._in_Verz. d. Oxf. H. 32,a,25. ādityasya sadā pūjāṃ tilakaṃ svāminastathā . mahāgaṇapateścaiva kurvansiddhimavāpnuyāt .. YĀJÑ. 1,293. ˚vidhi Verz. d. B. H. No. 1022. — 4〉 die Zierde von Etwas: taṃ bhuvanatilakabhūtaṃ (bhuvanatrayatilakaṃ ad HIT. I, 28) janayati jananī sutaṃ viralam PAÑCAT. I, 118. lokatilakaḥ RĀJA-TAR. 1,47. nṛpati˚ PRAB. 3,10. taṃ vidyādharatilakam KATHĀS. 22,254. vāridhestīratilakaṃ tadviṭaṅkapuraṃ puram KATHĀS. 25,38. kailāsatilakāṃ (adj.!) diśam RĀJA-TAR. 3,375. m.f.n. = pradhāna NĀNĀRTHADHVANIMAÑJARĪ_im_ŚKDR. — 5〉 m. eine Art Ritornell (dhruvaka) SAM̃GĪTADĀM._im_ŚKDR. Vgl. 9,c. — 6〉 m. eine bes. Art von Pferden H. an. MED. — 7〉 m. N. pr. eines Sohnes des Pradyota MATSYA-P._in_VP. 466, N. 3 (andere Autorr.: pālaka). N. pr. eines Gebieters über Kampanā RĀJA-TAR. 8,577. RĀJA-TAR. 8,601. RĀJA-TAR. 8,634. RĀJA-TAR. 8,659. RĀJA-TAR. 8,708 u. s. w. — 8〉 f. ā eine Art Halsschmuck JAṬĀDH._im_ŚKDR. — 9〉 n. a〉 Urinblase oder Lunge (kloman) AK. 2,6,2,16. TRIK. H. 605. H. an. (loman st. kloman). MED. — b〉 schwarzes Sochalsalz AK. 2,9,43. H. 943. H. an. MED. — c〉 Alliteration RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 23. RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 131. RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 183. RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 212. RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 215. RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 223. RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 227. RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 236. RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 264. RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 281. RĀJA-TAR. t. I, p. 287. ed. Calc. p. 118. ed. Calc. p. 127. ed. Calc. p. 128. ed. Calc. p. 133. ed. Calc. p. 159. Vgl. oben 5. — d〉 ein best. Metrum (4 Mal ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑ –) COLEBR. Misc. Ess. II, 159 (COLEBR. Misc. Ess. I, 5). — Vgl. ūrdhvatilakin, eṇatilaka, kha˚, vasanta˚.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

tilaka 9〉e〉 Bez. einer best. Begehung: ˚vrata Verz. d. Oxf. H. 34,a,19. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 284,a,39. vratādau tilakādike WEBER, Nax. 2,281.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

tilaka 1〉 nach ELLIOT Clerodendron phlomoides. RĀJAN. 10,42.

Böhtlingk 1879 substantive masculine · substantive neuter · Word type unspecified

Original text · German · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

tilaka — 1〉 m. — a〉 ein best. schönblühender Baum, Clerodendrum phlomoides. Nach RĀJAN. 6,212 Symplocos racemosa. — b〉 Mal, dunkler Fleck unter der Haut. — c〉 *eine Art Hautausschlag. — d〉 ein best. Dhruvaka. — e〉 *eine best. Art von Pferden. — f〉 N. pr. verschiedener Männer. — 2〉 m. n. (PAÑCAD.) ein mit farbigen Stoffen als Zierde oder Sectenzeichen auf der Stirn oder auf andern Körpertheilen aufgetragener Fleck. Am Ende eines adj. Comp. f. ā. Nom. abstr. ˚tā f. VIDDH. 42,1. — 3〉 m. (*f. n.) die Zierde von (im Comp. vorangehend) Chr. 108,1. Am Ende eines adj. Comp. f. ā RĀJAT. 3,375. — 4〉 *f. ā eine Art Halsschmuck. — 5〉 n. — a〉 *die rechte Lunge. — b〉 *schwarzes Sochalsalz. — c〉 Alliteration. — d〉 ein best. Metrum. — e〉 eine best. Begehung.

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

tilaka auch = triślokī ZACH. Beitr. [Nachtrag, Band 5]

Original text · German · Word type unspecified

tilaka III. 5. [Nachtrag, Band 7]

Apte 1890 substantive masculine · substantive neuter

Original text · English · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

tilakaḥ [til-kvun, tila ivārthe svalpe vā kan vā] 1 A species of tree with beautiful flowers; ākrāṃtā tilakakriyāpi tilakairlīnadvirephāṃjanaiḥ M. 3. 5; na khalu śobhayati sma vanasthalīṃ na tilakastilakaḥ pramadāmiva R. 9. 41. 2 A freckle or natural mark under the skin. 3 The sesamum tree. — kaḥ, — kaṃ 1 A mark made with sandalwood or unguents &c.; mukhe ([Page 0539-b]) madhuśrīstilakaṃ prakāśya Ku. 3. 30; kastūrikātilakamāli vidhāya sāyaṃ Bv. 2. 4: Bv. 1. 121. 2 The ornament of anything (used at the end of comp. in the sense of ‘best’, ‘chief’ or ‘distinguished’); jīvaloka˚ Māl. 9. 21; Pt. 1. 105. 3 The burden of a song (dhruvaka). — kā A kind of necklace. — kaṃ 1 The bladder. 2 The lungs. 3 A kind of salt. 4 A kind of disease, the appearance of dark spots on the skin without any inflammation. 5 Alliteration. Comp. — āśrayaḥ the forehead.

Cappeller 1887 substantive masculine

Original text · German · substantive masculine

tilaka m. ein best. Baum, Körpermal; Sektenzeichen o. Schönheitsfleck (auch n.), die Zierde von (—˚).

Burnouf 1866 adjective · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

Original text · French · adjective

tilaka a. tacheté; marqué d'un signe. Au fig. qui a les signes de la noblesse; qui est un titre de noblesse: raghuvaṃśatilaka l'honneur de la famille de Raghu, c-à-d. Rāma.

Original text · French · substantive masculine · substantive neuter

tilaka m. n. (sfx. ka) marque que l'on se trace sur le front soit comme ornement, soit comme distinction de secte. M. marque ou signe naturel sur la peau. Titre, marque de noblesse, en gén. Esp. d'arbre; esp. de cheval. — N. sorte de sel artificiel. Vessie. Maladie cutanée. — F. sorte de collier.

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VBT 36–42: Sound and Bindu 1 occurrence

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