पित्तpitta

पित्त (pitta) is a Sanskrit word meaning bile or the bilious humour, bile, the bilious humor, bile or the bilious humor, the bile, bile, one of the three humours of the body. Its 9 recorded definitions are grouped into 2 contexts, among them Bile or the bilious humour (general definition), Bile as one of the three Ayurvedic humours (Tridosha).

Etymology: E. अपि certainly, दो to destroy, or देङ् to nourish, aff. क्त, deriv. irr., or तप् to inflame, aff. क्त, and the radical letters transposed
Definitions: 9

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Bile or the bilious humour (general definition)

6 definitions

bile

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bile or the bilious humor.

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bile

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bile or the bilious humour

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bile

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

the bile

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bile as one of the three Ayurvedic humours (Tridosha)

3 definitions

bile or the bilious humour

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Bile, one of the three humours of the body

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

bile, the bilious humor

पित्त (pitta) [Printed book page 0575-a]
पित्त (pitta) pitta, am, n. (etymology doubtful),

bile, the bilious humor, one of the three humors of

the body (the other two being vāta and kapha; it

is especially secreted between the stomach and

bowels, and thence flows through the liver, and

distributes itself in the spleen, heart, eyes, and skin;

its chief quality is heat); [cf. kūrma-p°, go-p°,

rakta-p°, paittika.] —Pitta-koṣa, as, m. the

gall-bladder. —Pitta-kṣobha, as, m. excess and

disturbance of the bilious humor. —Pitta-gadin, ī,

inī, i, suffering from bilious complaints, bilious.

—Pitta-ghna, as, ī, am, ‘bile-destroying,’ anti-

bilious; (am), n. an antidote to bilious com-

plaints; ghee ?; (ī), f. a plant, Cocculus Cordifolius.

—Pitta-jvara, as, m. bilious fever. —Pitta-drā-

vin, ī, iṇī, i, ‘bile-dispersing,’ removing bile; (ī),

m. the sweet citron (= madhura-jambīra). —Pitta-

dhara, as, ā, am, containing bile, bilious. —Pitta-

nivarhaṇa, as, ā, am, destroying bile. —Pitta-

prakṛti, is, is, i, being of a bilious temperament.

—Pitta-prakopa, as, m. excess and vitiation of

the bilious humor. —Pitta-rakta, am, n. plethora;

[cf. rakta-pitta.] —Pitta-rogin, ī, iṇī, i, suffering

from bilious complaints, bilious. —Pitta-vat, ān,

atī, at, having bile, bilious. —Pitta-vāyu, us, m.

flatulence arising from excess and vitiation of the

bilious humor. —Pitta-vidagdha, as, ā, am, burnt

up by bile, impaired or destroyed by bile. —Pitta-

vināśana, as, ī, am, ‘bile-destroying,’ antibilious.

—Pitta-śamana, as, ī, am, ‘bile-alleviating,’

antibilious. —Pitta-syanda, as, m. a bilious form

of ophthalmia; [cf. pittābhiṣyanda.] —Pitta-

hara, as, ī, am, ‘bile-removing,’ antibilious. —Pit-

tātīsāra (°ta-at°), as, m. ‘bile-dysentery,’ a bilious

form of diarrhœa. —Pittātīsārin, ī, iṇī, i, suffering

from a bilious form of dysentery. —Pittābhiṣyanda

(°ta-abh°), as, m. a bilious form of ophthalmia;

[cf. pitta-syanda.] —Pittāri (°ta-ari), is, m.

‘enemy of bile,’ i. e. anything antibilious; N. of

various plants and vegetable substances used to coun-

teract biliousness (= parpaṭa, lākṣā, and varvara).

—Pittopahata (°ta-up°), as, ā, am, impaired or

destroyed by bile. [ID=29250]

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

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Definitions on this page come from 9 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.