माला mālā

माला mālā ma:la: (nf) a garland; wreath; rosary, string of beads; series; chain, row, line; ~कार a garland-maker; circular; —जपना/फेरना to tell beads, to remember God by feeling the beads of a rosary one by one; —पहनाना to garland.

S مالا माला mālā, s.f. A wreath, garland, chaplet (of flowers, &c.); — a row, line; a chain, string (of beads, &c.), a necklace, a Hindū rosary; a collection, group, a collection of words arranged in order, a vocabulary, a dictionary; a book; — a field; — a cocoa-nut shell: — mālā-phal, s.m. The seed of the Elœocarpus ganitrus (of which rosaries are made): — mālā phernā, or mālā japnā, To tell (one's) beads: — mālā-kār, s.m. (f. -ī), A wreath-maker, garland-weaver; a florist, gardener, flower-seller: — mālā-vān, adj. (f. -vatī), Having a wreath or garland, garlanded, wreathed, crowned.