mahuaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• mahwa, mowra, mohwa, mowrah, mhowa, mowa, mowah, moh tree

語源

Borrowed from Hindi महुआ (mahuā).

名詞

mahua (plural mahuas)

1. Madhuca longifolia, a fast-growing Indian tropical tree cultivated for its oleaginous seeds.

   Synonyms: iluppai, mowra butter tree

   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 119:

     When the Mannewars, another forest tribe of the Central Provinces, pick the flowers of the mahua tree (Bassia latifolia), they worship the tree and offer it some of the liquor distilled from the new flowers, along with a fowl and a goat.

上位語

• tree