different between kikar vs babul

English

Etymology

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Wikispecies

Noun

kikar

1. A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica, formerly Acacia arabica var nilotica.

Synonyms

• babul, prickly acacia

Anagrams

• Karki

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

kikar

1. present of kike

Swedish

Verb

kikar

1. present tense of kika.

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• This older term has been replaced by novul (“November”).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