jetuka
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Assamese জেতুকা (zetuka).
Noun[edit]
jetuka (uncountable)
- (India) Henna (Lawsonia inermis), as used in Assam. The template Template:rfclarify does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.(clarification of this definition is needed)- 1949, The Eastern Anthropologist, volume 3, page 74:
- The leaves of the Jetuka shrub give a red juice when crushed.
- 1965, Praphulladatta Goswami, Folk-literature of Assam, page 8:
- It is a pleasant sight to see a young girl with her blackened teeth, her palms reddened with the juice of jetuka leaves, her head bedecked with orchid, swaying her figure gracefully and singing erotic quatrains […].
- 2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 2:
- Her palms, decorated with jetuka, picked up the grains.