jihvā

[apte] 1 The tongue. --2 The ton- gue of fire, i. e. a flame. --3 A sentence. --Comp. --āsvādaḥ lick; ing, lapping. --ullekhanī, --ullekhanikā, --nirlekhanaṃ a tongue-scraper. --paḥ 1. a dog. --2. a cat. --3. a tiger. --4. a leopard. --5. a bear. --malaṃ the fur of the tongue. --mūlaṃ the root of the tongue. --mūlīya a. a term par- ticularly applied to the Visarga before k and kh and also to ṛ, ḷ and the guttural class of...