agaru:
Synonyms
Synonyms in Ayurveda: aguru, agaru, agni, loha, krimij, rajarha, bhringraj, agnikashtha, vanshik, vanadrum, puram, dhupagam, mallikaagadh, jongaka Agar wood is known under many names in different cultures:
- Another name is Lingnum aloes or Aloeswood , unrelated to the familiar genus, Aloe. Also called aghil, via Hebrew and Greek
- In Assamese it is called as "sasi" or "sashi"
- In Bengali, agarwood is known as "agor/agoro gach
- In Cambodia it is called"chann crassna " The fragrance from the wood is called "khloem chann"
- In Hindi it is known as agar, which is derived originally from the Sanskrit aguru
- In Sinhala agarwood producing Gyrinops walla tree is known as" Walla patta"
- In Tamil it is called "akil"though what was referred in ancient Tamil literature could well be Excoecaria agallocha.
- In Telugu and Kannada, it is known by the same Sanskrit name as Agaru.
- In Europe it was referred to as Lignum aguila or Agilawood, from similarity to Tamil- Malayalam aghil, deriving from Sanskrit agaru
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