Names of Plants in India: Trigonella emodi Benth.

try-go-NEL-uh -- three small angles ... Dave's Botanary
¿ em-OH-dee ? -- of or from Himalaya; Montes Emodi are the "golden mountains" ... refers to Himalaya ... Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

commonly known as: Himalayan fenugreek • Dogri: वन मेथरे van methrey • Garhwali: तुलजिमा tuljima • Kinnauri: तुलजिमा tuljima • Ladakh region: shamilik • Ladakhi: བུག་སུག bugsug • Lahaul-Spiti region: ampang, buksup, kuchona, rebuksu, tuljima • Nepali: मेथी methee • Pahari: मेथी methi, मेथुघा methughaa

botanical names: Trigonella emodi Benth. ... synonyms listed at POWO, retrieved 28 November 2024

Bibliography / etymology

Links listed as references in the notes below, may not remain valid permanently. Portals / websites have a tendency to re-organize / revise their content, leading to change in URLs of pages in their site. Some sites may even close down at their own will. The bits about the languages of India mentioned below are merely some bare facts gathered from the internet; just enough to satisfy curiosity about "where" could the listed names be best prevalent in India. All English transliterated names to be taken sensu amplo.

~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~

written and spoken widely, in most parts of India

Himalayan fenugreek

for want of name, name coined by Flowers of India, retrieved November 28, 2024

~~~~~ DOGRI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (डोगरी) ... spoken in: Jammu & Kashmir ... spoken by the Dogras

वन मेथरे van methrey

Many thanks to OM Prakash Vidyarthi for help with this name ... facebook

~~~~~ GARHWALI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (गढ़वळि) ... spoken in: Uttarakhand

तुलजिमा tuljima

S C Arya & S S Samant - Diversity, Utilization pattern and indigenous uses of useful plant resources in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, West Himalaya, India - International Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2019, Vol. 9, Issue 1, pages 10-25

~~~~~ KINNAURI ~~~~~

oral language, written in: Devanagari (किन्नौरी) / Tibetan (ཀིནྣཽརཱི) ... spoken in: Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh ... many linguistic varieties ... spoken by Kinnaura people

तुलजिमा tuljima

Devi, Usha & Sharma, Pankaj & Rana, Jai & Sharma, Aman. (2014). Phytodiversity assessment in Sangla valley, Northwest Himalaya, India. Check List: Journal of species lists and distribution. 10. 740-760. 10.15560/10.4.740.

~~~~~ Ladakh region ~~~~~

shamilik

OSADHI - Online Structural and Analytics based Database for Herbs of India
the name needs to be rendered in its native script

~~~~~ LADAKHI ~~~~~

written in: Tibetan (ལ་དྭགས་སྐད་) ... spoken in: Ladakh

བུག་སུག bugsug

Abdul Hamid, Anil K. Raina, Ethnobotanical uses of Plants in and Around Kanji Wildlife Sanctuary, North West Himalaya, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Volume 3 Issue 11, November 2014, pp. 538-545
spelling in Tibetan script sought from - Rangjung Yeshe Wiki - Dharma Dictionary ... བུག་སུག bugsug = bird's foot-trefoil

~~~~~ Lahaul and Spiti region ~~~~~

languages spoken: Lahuli (Stod Bhoti) | Spiti | Nyamkat | Bhoti Kinnauri | Tukpa (Nesang)

ampang

Singh, Ashok & Lal, Manohar & Samant, S.. (2009). Diversity, indigenous uses and conservation prioritization of medicinal plants in Lahaul valley, proposed Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, India. International Journal of Biodiversity Science & Management. 5. 132-154. 10.1080/17451590903230249.
the name needs to be rendered in its native script

buksup, kuchona

Kumar, Puneet, Singhal, Vijay Kumar, Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicinal Uses, Chromosomal Status and Natural Propagation of Some Plants of Lahaul-Spiti and Adjoining Hills, Journal of Botany, 2013, 248943, 14 pages, 2013.
Singh, Ashok & Lal, Manohar & Samant, S.. (2009). Diversity, indigenous uses and conservation prioritization of medicinal plants in Lahaul valley, proposed Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, India. International Journal of Biodiversity Science & Management. 5. 132-154. 10.1080/17451590903230249.
the names need to be rendered in their native script

rebuksu

Singh, Koushalya Nandan. "Traditional knowledge on ethnobotanical uses of plant biodiversity: a detail study from the Indian western Himalaya". Biodiversity: Research and Conservation no. 28 (2012): 63-77.
Singh, Ashok & Lal, Manohar & Samant, S.. (2009). Diversity, indigenous uses and conservation prioritization of medicinal plants in Lahaul valley, proposed Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, India. International Journal of Biodiversity Science & Management. 5. 132-154. 10.1080/17451590903230249.
the name needs to be rendered in its native script

tuljima

Devi, Usha & Sharma, Pankaj & Ahmad, Anees & Khan, Asma. (2023). Wild plant resources used as food in Spiti Valley: A cold arid zone of Himachal Pradesh, India. Journal of Medicinal Plants Studies. 11. 106-114. 10.22271/plants.2023.v11.i4b.1576.
Singh, Ashok & Lal, Manohar & Samant, S.. (2009). Diversity, indigenous uses and conservation prioritization of medicinal plants in Lahaul valley, proposed Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, India. International Journal of Biodiversity Science & Management. 5. 132-154. 10.1080/17451590903230249.
the name needs to be rendered in its native script

~~~~~ NEPALI ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (नेपाली) ... spoken in: Nepal, West Bengal, Assam, Sikkim

मेथी methee

Many thanks to Saroj Kumar Kasaju for help with this name ... efloraofindia

~~~~~ PAHARI (or PAHADI) ~~~~~

written in: Devanagari (पहाड़ी), Perso-Arabic (پہاڑی) ... variety of languages, dialects and language groups, spoken in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand

मेथी methi