Definitions for mahua

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mahua ma·hua

Spelling: [mah-hwah]

IPA: /ˈmɑ ʰwɑ/

Mahua is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in mahua (aahmu).

Definitions for mahua

noun

1. any of several trees of the genus Madhuca, of the sapodilla family, native to India, the Malay Peninsula, and southeastern Asia, especially M. latifolia, the flowers of which are used, fresh or dried, for food or are fermented to prepare an intoxicating drink.

Origin of mahua

1680-90; Hindi mahūā ≪ Sanskrit madhūka a tree name

Examples for mahua

The mahua is the tree from whose flowers spirits are distilled.

After the marriage the bride and the bridegroom have a ceremony of throwing a mahua branch into a river together.

The body of an adult may also be burnt under a mahua tree so that the tree may give him a supply of liquor in the next world.

They know how to distil liquor from the flowers of the mahua (Bassia latifolia).

A cock, some mahua (Bassia latifolia) and parched grain are offered to her.

A mahua tree grew in the Deo-khulla or worshipping-place of this sept.

In the absence of toddy, they sometimes manufacture illicit liquor from the flower-buds of the mahua (or mowhra) tree.