Miga, Migà: 7 definitions
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Miga means something in Buddhism, Pali, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesA king of the two kappas ago, a previous birth of Tinasantharadayaka. Ap.i.122; the name is probably Migasammata.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Biology (plants and animals)
: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Miga in Nigeria is the name of a plant defined with Pennisetum glaucum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Penicillaria cylindrica Roemer & Schultes (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1895)
· Aspects Pl. Sci. (1989)
· Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas (1895)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1996)
· Conspectus Florae Africae (1894)
· Index Seminum [Berlin] (1855)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Miga, for example extract dosage, health benefits, side effects, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, chemical composition, have a look at these references.
This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarymiga : (m.) a beast; a quadruped; a deer.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryMiga, (Vedic mṛga, to ṛj, cp. magga, meaning, when characterised by another attribute “wild animal� in general, animal of the forest; when uncharacterised usually antelope) 1. a wild animal, an animal in its natural state (see cpds.).�2. a deer, antelope, gazelle. Various kinds are mentioned at J. V, 416; two are given at Nd2 509, viz. ṇi (antelope) & sarabha (red deer): see under ṇi & sarabha.�Sn. 39, 72; J. I, 154; III, 270 (called Nandiya); PvA. 62, 157. On miga in similes see J. P. T. S. 1907, 123, where more refs. are given.
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) miga (မိ�) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
[miga+ṇa．savaṇṇavaṇṇatāya mahābalatāya ca sīhahatthiādimigasadi- sattā migo viyāti migo．a�,ṭ�,1�68�(2) miga+dāya．]
[မိ�+ဏ။သဝဏ္ဏဝဏ္ဏတာ� မဟာဗလတာ� � သီဟဟတ္ထိအာဒိမိဂသဒ�- သတ္တ� မိဂေ� ဝိယာတ� မိဂေါ။ အံ၊ဋီ၊၁။၆၈� (�) မိ�+ဒါယ။]
2) miga (မိ�) [(pu) (ပ�)]�
[miga+a．miganti sīgha� vātavegana gacchanti dhāvantīti migā．apa,ṭṭha,2�1va4．maraṇa+gamu+kvi．maraṇāya gacchati pāpuṇātītimigo．apa,ṭṭha,2�118．maraṇa� gacchantīti migā．apa,ṭṭha,2�152．maga+a．atha vā magaya-māno ihati pavattatīti migo．apa,ṭṭha,2�118．magayati ito cito ca goca-ranti mago,migo ca．dhātvatthasaṅgaha．magga+a．atha vā ghāsa� magganti gavesanti migā．apa,ṭṭha,2�152．mara+a．mara pāṇacāge,a,rassa go ittañca�,ṭī．617．thī-nitea migī．]
[မိ�+အ။ မိဂန္တ� သီဃ� ဝါတဝေဂ� ဂစ္ဆန္တ� ဓာဝန္တီတ� မိဂါ။အပ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၁ဝ၄။မရ�+ဂမ�+ကွိ။ မရဏာ� ဂစ္ဆတ� ပါပုဏာတီတိမိဂေါ။ အပ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၁၁၈။ မရဏ� ဂစ္ဆန္တီတ� မိဂါ။အပ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၁၅၂။မ�+အ။ အ� ဝ� မဂ�-မာနေ� ဣဟတ� ပဝတ္တတီတ� မိဂေါ။ အပ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၁၁၈။ မဂယတ� ဣတေ� စိတေ� � ဂေါ�-ရန္တ� မဂေါ၊ မိဂေ� စ။ ဓာတွတ္ထသင်္ဂဟ။ မဂ္�+အ။ အ� ဝ� ဃာသ� မဂ္ဂန္တ� ဂဝေသန္တ� မိဂါ။ အပ၊ဋ္ဌ၊၂။၁၅၂။ မ�+အ။ မ� ပါဏစာဂေ၊ အ၊ ရ� ဂေ� ဣတ္တဉ္စ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၁၇။ ထ�-� မိဂီ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)1) miga�
(Burmese text): သားကောင်၊ အခြေလေးချောင်းသတ္တဝါ၊ သမင်။
(Auto-Translation): Young stag, four-legged animal, deer.
2) miga�
(Burmese text): (�) သားကောင်နှင့်တူသေ� (ပုစွန�)� (�) သားကောင်တို့ကိ� ဘေးမဲ့ပေးရာဖြစ်သော။ (�) မိဂ�-ရ�- ကြည့�
(Auto-Translation): (1) A male child (shrimp). (2) A safe place for male children. (3) Dear mother, look.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Kannada-English dictionary
: Alar: Kannada-English corpusMiga (ಮಿ�):�
1) [noun] any wild animal.
2) [noun] a deer; a stag.
3) [noun] a small, hornless deer (Moschus moschiferus) of the uplands of central Asia, the male of which secretes musk and has tusklike upper canines; musk deer.
4) [noun] a hog or pig.
5) [noun] any of various wild animals hunted for sport or for use as food; a game.
6) [noun] a man who can be easily cheated.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with (+17): Migabhuta, Migachapaka, Migacira, Migadana, Migadaya, Migadera, Migadhenu, Migadhibhu, Migadoval, Migagaiya, Migagama Vihara, Migagayya, Migageyya, Migajala, Migajalena Sutta, Migajina, Migaketu, Migalaccana, Migalandika, Migalopa.
Full-text (+228): Migadaya, Migasammata, Migavisana, Valamiga, Migabhuta, Migatanhika, Kummiga, Migavadha, Migaluddaka, Migaggahana, Migaghata, Miganka, Balamiga, Migagana, Migajata, Kilamiga, Migajataka, Migaranna, Thitamiga, Bhagineyyamiga.
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Sanskrit Words In Southeast Asian Languages (by Satya Vrat Shastri)
Page 577 < [Sanskrit words in the Southeast Asian Languages]
Vinaya Pitaka (3): Khandhaka (by I. B. Horner)
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Vinaya (2): The Mahavagga (by T. W. Rhys Davids)
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