phalsa

English

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Alternative forms

• falsa

Etymology

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Noun

phalsa (plural phalsas)

1. Grewia asiatica, a shrub or small tree native to southern Asia.
2. Its fruit, an edible acidic drupe that is purple to black when ripe.

Translations

Grewia asiatica

Bengali: ফলসা (bn) (pholśa) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hindi: फालसा (hi) (phālsā), परुषा (hi) (paruṣā), परुषक (paruṣak) Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: インドウオトリギ (indo-uotorigi) Kannada: please add this translation if you can Khmer: please add this translation if you can Malay: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Marathi: please add this translation if you can Sanskrit: नीलचर्मन् (sa) m (nīlacarman), अल्पास्थि (sa) n (alpāsthi) (fruit) Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can Tagalog: please add this translation if you can Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• phalsa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Grewia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Grewia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Alphas, palash, alaphs, phaals, alphas, phasal, Pahals