parijat

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Marathi पारिजात (pārijāt).

Noun

parijat (uncountable)

  1. (India) The night-blooming jasmine, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template..
    • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 355:
      ‘What are you betting?’ I looked out of the window. ‘The flowers from the parijat tree.’
    • 2008, Michael Charles Baltutis, The Festival of Indra, p. 220:
      In order to completely carry out this bartā, she required a flower from the parijāt tree, a tree that does not grow in the heavenly city of Indra.
    • 2013, Indu Sundaresan, The Indu Sundaresan Collection:
      She turned away and cleared the parijat flowers from the stone edge of the pool with a wet hand.
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