Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

[तिल्-क्वुन्, तिल इवार्थे स्वल्पे वा कन् वा]

1. A species of tree with beautiful flowers; Rām.2.94.9; आक्रान्ता तिलकक्रियापि तिलकैर्लीनद्विरेफाञ्जनैः M.3,5; न खलु शोभयति स्म वनस्थलीं न तिलकस्तिलकः प्रमदामिव R.9.41. Kālidāsa describes the beauty of this tree as being akin to that of the saffron-mark on the forehead of a woman. The name suggests a relation to tila. the sesame plant, Sesamum indicum Linn. Now this plant has got flowers that have got a very pretty appearance. It is a shrub and not a tree. It grows four to five feet in height. Its flower has five petals. The lower petal is the longest. In wild variety there is a promiment spot on the longest petal which is highly suggestive of the saffron-mark on the forehead of a woman.
2. A freckle or natural mark under the skin.
3. The sesamum tree. कः, कम् A mark made with sandalwood or unguents etc.; मुखे मधुश्री- स्तिलकं प्रकाश्य Ku.3.3; कस्तूरिकातिलकमालि विधाय सायम् Bv.2.4;1.121.
4. The ornament of anything (used at the end of comp. in the sense of 'best', 'chief' or 'distinguished'); कुलdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied; जीवलोकdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied Māl.9.21; यस्य न विपदि विषादः संपदि हर्षो रणे न भीरुत्वम् । तं भुवनत्रयतिलकं जनयति जननी सुतं विरलम् ॥ Pt.1.15.
5. The burden of a song (ध्रुवक).

1. masculine gender (gaRa स्थूला*दि) Clerodendrum phlomoides (Symplocos racemosa Lexicographers) MBh. etc.
2. masculine gender a freckle (compared to a sesamum -seed) VarBr2S. l, 9; lii, 10 Katha1s.
3. masculine gender a kind of skin-eruption Lexicographers
4. masculine gender (in music) Name of a Dhruvaka ध्रुवक
5. masculine gender a kind of horse Lexicographers
6. masculine gender Name of a prince of Kampana1 कम्पना Ra1jat. viii, 577 ff
7. masculine gender (neuter gender Pan5cad. ii, 57) a mark on the forehead (made with coloured earths, sandal-wood, or unguents, either as an ornament or a sectarial distinction) Ya1jn5. i, 293 MBh. iii, 11591 R. (in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' f(आ)., iii) etc.
8. masculine gender the ornament of anything (in compound) Pan5cat. i, 1, 92 Katha1s. etc. (in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' f(आ). Ra1jat. iii, 375)
9. neuter gender the same Lexicographers
10. neuter gender the right lung Lexicographers
11. neuter gender black sochal salt Lexicographers
12. neuter gender alliteration Ra1jat.
13. neuter gender a metre of 4 x 6 syllables
14. neuter gender Equivalent to त्रि-श्लोकी Lexicographers
15. neuter gender a kind of observance Ka1lanirn2. Introduction 12