Ratti, 鲹ٳī: 12 definitions
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Ratti means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Buddhism, Pali, the history of ancient India, Jainism, Prakrit, Hindi, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)
: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu鲹ٳī in the Hindi and Marathi language is another another name for ҳñ, a medicinal plants identified with Abrus precatorius (Indian licorice or rosary pea) from the Fabaceae or “legume family� of flowering plants, according to verse 3.113-116 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The third chapter (ḍūc徱-) of this book contains climbers and creepers (īܻ). Other than the Hindi/Marathi word 鲹ٳī, there are more synonyms identified for both varieties of this plant among which twenty-two are in Sanskrit.
Kalpa (Formulas, Drug prescriptions and other Medicinal preparations)
: Shodhganga: Edition translation and critical study of yogasarasamgrahaRatti (रत्त�) or ҳñ refers to a unit of measurement of weight (1 ratti equals 125mg; 8 rattis = 1 ṣa = 1g), as defined in the 15th-century Yogasārasaṅgraha (Yogasara-saṅgraha) by Vāsudeva: an unpublished Keralite work representing an Ayurvedic compendium of medicinal recipes. The Yogasārasaṃgraha [mentioning ratti] deals with entire recipes in the route of administration, and thus deals with the knowledge of pharmacy (ṣaⲹ-첹貹) which is a branch of pharmacology (ⲹṇa).
A relative overview of weight-units is found below, ratti indicated in bold. In case of liquids, the metric equivalents would be the corresponding litre and milliliters.
1 Ratti or ҳñ = 125mg,
8 Rattis - 1 Māṣa = 1g,
4 Māṣa - 1 Kaḻañc = 4g,
12 Māṣas - 1 Karṣa = 12g,
1 Karṣa /Akṣa - 1 Niṣka = 12g,
2 Karṣas - 1 Śukti = 24g,
2 Śukti - 1 Pala = 48g,
2 Palas - 1 Prasṛti = 96g,
2 Prasṛtis - 1 Kuḍava = 192g,
2 Kuḍava - 1 Mānikā = 384g,
2 Mānikās - 1 Prastha (Seru) = 768g,
4 Prasthas - 1 Āḍhaka (Kaṃsa) = 3.072kg,
4 Āḍhakas or Kalaśas - 1 Droṇa = 12.288kg,
2 Droṇas - 1 Surpa = 24.576kg,
2 Surpas - 1 Droṇ� (Vahi) = 49.152kg,
4 Droṇīs - 1 Khari = 196.608kg,
1 Pala = 48g,
100 Palas - 1 Tulā = 4.8kg,
20 Tulās - 1 Bhāra = 96kg.

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India history and geography
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Indian Epigraphical Glossary鲹ٳī.—see rati. Note: ٳī is defined in the “Indian epigraphical glossary� as it can be found on ancient inscriptions commonly written in Sanskrit, Prakrit or Dravidian languages.

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Biology (plants and animals)
: Wisdom Library: Local Names of Plants and DrugsRatti [रत्ती] in the Hindi language is the name of a plant identified with Abrus precatorius L. from the Fabaceae (pea) family. For the possible medicinal usage of ratti, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.
Ratti [ਰੱਤੀ] in the Punjabi language, ibid. previous identification.
Ratti [رتي] in the Urdu language, ibid. previous identification.
: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Ratti in India is the name of a plant defined with Abrus precatorius in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Abrus cyaneus R. Vig. (among others).
2) Ratti in Tamil is also identified with Ziziphus mauritiana It has the synonym Paliurus mairei H. Lév. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Notulae Systematicae. Herbier du Museum de Paris (1951)
· Gardeners Dictionary, ed. 8 (1768)
· Kew Bulletin (1970)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1789)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1984)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Ratti, for example extract dosage, diet and recipes, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, health benefits, side effects, have a look at these references.

This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionaryratti : (f.) night.
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryRatti, (f.) (Vedic rātrī & later Sk. rātri.—Idg * as in Gr. lήqw=Lat. lateo to hide; Sk rāhu dark demon; also Gr. *lhtw/ (=Lat. Latona) Goddess of night; Mhg. luoder insidiousness; cp. further Gr. lanqάnw to be hidden, lήqh oblivion (E. lethargy).—The by-form of ratti is ratta2) night D. I, 47 (dosinā). Gen. sg. ٲ (for *ٳپ) Th. 1, 517; Sn. 710 (vivasane=ratti-samatikkame SnA 496); J. VI, 491. Abl. sg. ٳپ in phrases abhikkantāya r. at the waning of night D. II, 220; Vin. I, 26; S. I, 16; M. I, 143; & pabhātāya r. when night grew light, i.e. dawn J. I, 81, 500. Instr. pl. ٳīsu Vin. I, 288 (hemantikāsu r.). A Loc. ٲ (for *rātryām) and a Nom. pl. ratyo (for *rātrya�) is given by Geiger, P. Gr. § 583.—Very often combined with and opp. to diva in foll. combinations: rattin-diva (cp. BSk. rātrindiva=Gr. nuxqήmeron, AvŚ I. 274, 278; II, 176; Divy 124) a day & a night (something like our �24 hours�), in phrase dasa rattin徱 a decade of n. & d. (i.e. a 10—day week) A. V, 85 sq.; adverbially satta-ٳپ-徱� a week DhA. I, 108. As adv. in Acc. sg. : ٳپ-徱� night and day A. III, 57; Sn. 507, 1142; It. 93; J. I, 30; or rattiñ ca divañ ca Nd2 538, or ٳپ� opposed to adv. 徱 by night-by day M. I, 143; PvA. 43.—Other cases as adv. : Acc. eka ٳپ� one night J. I, 62; Pv. II, 97; PvA. 42; ta� ٳپ� that night Mhvs 4, 38; ima� r. this night M. I, 143; yañ car... . yañ car... . etasmi� antare in between yon night and yon night It. 121; ٳپ� at night Miln. 42; ٳپ� ٳپ� night after night Mhvs 30, 16.—Gen. ٳپ ca divasassa ca by n. & by day S. II, 95.—Loc. ٳپⲹñ by night VvA. 130, 315 (aḍḍha° at midnight); PvA. 22; and ratto in phrase 徱 ca ratto ca Sn. 223; Th. 2, 312; Dh. 296; Vv 315; 8432; S. I, 33.
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) ratti (ရတ္တ�) [(thī) (ထ�)]�
ڰٳپ+ᲹԲ.uٳٲ貹岹DZ貹.]
[ရတ္တ�+ဘောဇန။ ဥတ္တရပဒလောပ။]
2) ratti (ရတ္တ�) [(ti) (တ�)]�
[ranja+ti.rā+tira+kvi.ranjantisattā etthāti ratthi.rāsaddo tiyyati chijjati etthāti ratti.nīti,dhātu�368.kaṅkhā,ṭī.266.dī,ṭ�,3�45.rā+ti.rāti gaṇhāti abyāpāranti ratti,rajjanti vā ettha ratthi�,ṭī.69.rātri-saṃ.ratthi-prā.addamāgadhī.]
[ရန္�+တိ။ ရ�+တိ�+ကွိ။ ရန္ဇန္တိသတ္တ� ဧတ္ထာတ� ရတ္ထိ။ ရာသဒ္ဒေ� တိယျတ� ဆိဇ္ဇတ� ဧတ္ထာတ� ရတ္တိ။ နီတိ၊ဓာတု။၃၆၈။ ကင်္ခါ၊ဋီသစ်။၂၆၆။ ဒီ၊ဋီ၊၃။၄၅� ရ�+တိ။ ရာတ� ဂဏှာတ� အဗျာပါရန္တ� ရတ္တိ၊ရဇ္ဇန္တ� ဝ� ဧတ္� ရတ္ထိ။ ဓာန်၊ဋီ။၆၉� ရာတြ�-သံ။ ရတ္ထ�-ပြာ။ အဒ္ဒမာဂဓီ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)1) ratti�
(Burmese text): (�) (က) ညဉ့�=ည၊ နေဝင်သည်မ� အရုဏ်တက်သည့်တိုင်အောင်ကာလ၊ (တစ်ညလုံ�)� (�) ညဉ့်၏ ပဌမယာမ်။ (�) ညဉ့်၏ မဇ္ဈိမယာမ်။ (�) ညဉ့်၏ ပစ္ဆိမယာမ်။ (�) ညဉ့်၏-ပဌ�-မဇ္ဈိ�-ယာမ်။ (�) နေမွန်းတည့်မ� အရုဏ်တက်အထိကာလ။ (�) နေ့နှင့� ည။ (�) ဥပေက္ခ� ဝေဒနာဟူသေ�-ညဉ့�-ည။မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) (a) Night = the period from dusk until dawn (a whole night). (b) The first part of the night. (c) The middle part of the night. (d) The last part of the night. (e) First, middle, and last parts of the night combined. (f) The period from sunset until dawn. (g) Day and night. (2) The special pain called - night - night. Refer to the original for details.
2) ratti�
(Burmese text): ညဉ့်၌ အစာစားခြင်း၊ ညစ� စားခြင်း။
(Auto-Translation): Eating at night, having dinner.

Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Hindi dictionary
: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary鲹ٳī (रत्ती):�(nf) seed of Abrus precatorius; weight approximately equivalent to 2 1/4 grains; —[bhara ummīda na honā] not a dog’s chance; -[bhara paravāha na karanā] not to care a brass farthing.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionaryRatti (रत्त�) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: ٰ.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Nepali dictionary
: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary1) 鲹ٳī (रत्ती):—n. 1. crab's eye; crab stone; 2. mite; particle; grain;
2) 鲹ٳī (रत्ती):—adv. a little;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Ranja, Ratti, Bhojana, Ti.
Starts with (+12): Rajata, Rattabhata, Rattanatikkanta, Rattandha, Rattandhakara, Rattannu, Rattarakkha, Rattatikkama, Rattavasesa, Ratti safaid, Ratti surkh, Rattiatikkanta, Rattibhaga, Rattibhatta, Ratticara, Ratticheda, Rattidhumayana, Rattikhitta, Rattikkhaya, Rattikku.
Full-text (+138): Addharatta, Rattibhaga, Rattiatikkanta, Tiratti, Kattika, Rattandhakara, Rattikhitta, Ahoratta, Rattikkhaya, Rattannu, Kalapakkharatti, Rattikana, Agamanaratti, Upekkhavedanaratti, Agamiratti, Rattika, Rattivasattha, Rattirakkhavarana, Tiyamaratti, Rattivippavasa.
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