different between babul vs bablah

English

Alternative forms

• babool

Etymology

Borrowed both from French baboul and from Hindi ???? (bab?l, “babul tree”), probably ultimately from Sanskrit ?????? (vavvola, “acacia”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??bu?l/

Noun

babul (plural babuls)

1. A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica subsp. indica, formerly Acacia nilotica subsp. indica.

Synonyms

• kikar, prickly acacia

References

• babul at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “babul, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2011
• Acacia nilotica subsp. indica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Acacia nilotica subsp. indica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Acacia nilotica subsp. indica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Vachellia+nilotica at The Plant List

Anagrams

• bubal

Volapük

Etymology

From a contraction of balsebalul ( = bals (“ten, now deg”) +? e (“and”) +? bal (“one”) +? -ul (“(bound morpheme for) month (< mul)”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ba.?bul]

Noun

babul (nominative plural babuls)

1. (obsolete) November (the eleventh (11th) month of the year)

Usage notes

• This older term has been replaced by novul (“November”).

Declension

Synonyms

• balsebalul (obsolete)
• degbalul (cf. parallel contractions: deg(balul) > degbul; balse(balul) > babul)
• novul

English

Alternative forms

• babulah

Etymology

Compare Persian ????? (bab?l, “a species of mimosa yielding gum arabic”), Sanskrit ?????? (babbula), ?????? (babb?la, “species of acacia used for tanning”).

Noun

bablah (usually uncountable, plural bablahs)

1. The rind of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia, especially Vachellia nilotica, formerly Acacia arabica; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

Synonyms

• (Vachellia nilotica): babool, babul

References

• bablah at OneLook Dictionary Search
• bablah in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.