शिफा

{ śiphā }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

ŚIPHĀ   A river extolled in Ṛgveda. It is stated in [Sūkta 104, Anuvāka 15, Maṇḍala 1 of the Ṛgveda] that the asura named Kuyava should be thrown into the depths of Śiphā as he stole money.

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

   See : कमल ककड़ी, चुटिया, माँ, नदी, हल्दी, लता, हल्दी, चाबुक, जटामासी, जटामासी

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

शिफा  f.  f. a fibrous or flexible root (used for making whips &c.), [Mn. ix, 230]
   a lash or stroke with a whip or rod, ib. viii, 369
    N. of a river, [RV.] ( [L.] also ‘a branch; a river; a mother; a tuft of hair on the crown of the head; the root of a water-lily; spikenard; turmeric; a sort of dill or fennel’).

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

शिफा [śiphā]   1 A fibrous root; नीरन्ध्रपल्लवशिफानिभृतप्रकाण्डं सायं- तना भ्रसमशोभमशोकसालम् [Rām. ch.5.22;] [Ms.9.23.]
   The root of a water-lily.
   A root in general.
   A stroke with a whip; शिफाश्चैवाप्नुयाद्दश [Ms.8.369.]
   A mother.
   A river.
   Turmeric.
   Spikenard. -Comp.
-कन्दः, -न्दम्   the root of a water-lily.
-धरः   a branch.-रुहः the (Indian) fig-tree.

Shabda-Sagara

शिफा  f.  ( -फा)
   1. A fibrous root.
   2. Spikenard, (Valeriana jatamansi.) 3. A river.
   4. A mother.
   5. Turmeric.
   6. The root of a water-lily. 7. A lash with a whip.
    E. शी to sleep, फक् aff., and the form irr.

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शी फक्

संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) WN

   See : हरिद्रा, हरिद्रा