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कुम्भ f. m. a jar, pitcher, water-pot, ewer, small water-jar [often ifc. (f(आ). ) e.g. छिद्र-क्°, a perforated pitcher, [R.] ; आम-क्°, a jar of unbaked clay, [Pañcat.] ; हेम-क्°, a golden ewer, [Ragh. ii, 36] ; [Amar.] ; जल-क्°, a water-pot, [Pañcat.] ] [RV.] ; [AV.] &c.
an urn in which the bones of a dead person are collected, [ĀśvGṛ.] ; KātyŚr.; [ŚāṅkhŚr.]
the sign of the zodiac Aquarius, [Jyot.] ; [VarBṛS.] &c.
a measure of grain (equal to twenty द्रोणs, a little more than three bushels and three gallons; commonly called a comb; some make it two द्रोणs or sixty-four Seers), [Mn. viii, 320] ; [Hcat.]
the frontal globe or prominence on the upper part of the forehead of an elephant (there are two of these prominences which swell in the rutting season), [MBh.] ; [Bhartṛ.] &c.
a particular part of a bed, [VarBṛS.]
N. of a plant (and also of its fruit), [BhP. x, 18, 14]
the root of a plant used in medicine
a religious exercise, viz. closing the nostrils and mouth so as to suspend breathing, [L.]
the paramour of a harlot, bully, flash or fancy man, [L.]
N. of a मन्त्र (pronounced over a weapon), [R. i]
N. of a दानव (a son of प्रह्लाद and brother of निकुम्भ), [MBh. i, 2527] ; [Hariv.]
of a राक्षस (son of कुम्भकर्ण), [R.] ; [BhP.]
of the father of the nineteenth अर्हत् of the present अवसर्पिणी, [Jain.]
of a monkey, [R. iv, 33, 14]
one of the thirty-four जातकs or former births of शाक्य-मुनि, [L.]
N. of wk. [Sāh.]
कुम्भ n. n. the plant Ipomoea Turpethum, [L.]
गुग्गुलु a fragrant resin (), or the plant which bears it, [L.]
gold, [Gal.]
कुम्भ [cf. Gk. κύμβη; Lat. cymba.]
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