ཐུར་མ་

ཐུར་མ། (Wyl. thur ma ) Pron.: turma

• Skt. शलाका, śalākā, Pron.: shalaka. From Sanskrit: any small stake or stick, rod (for stirring), twig (smeared with lime for catching birds), rib (of an umbrella), bar (of a cage or window), chip, splinter, splint, pencil (for painting or applying collyrium) | a piece of bamboo (borne as a kind of credential by mendicants and marked with their name) | the quill of a porcupine | an oblong quadrangular piece of ivory or bone (used in playing a •partic. game). | a peg, pin, arrow-head, needle, a probe (used in surgery and sometimes taken as the N. of this branch of, surgery | a sprout, sprig, shoot of any kind | a ruler | a toothpick or tooth-brush | a match or thin piece of wood (used for ignition by friction) | a bone | a finger, toe | a porcupine | a •partic. thorny shrub, Vanguieria Spinosa | the Sārikā bird, Turdus Salica | N. of a town | of a woman [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW