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pūra

mfn. (√ pṝ, Caus.) filling, making full (cf. pāṇi-)


fulfilling, satisfying (cf. kāma-)


m. the act of filling, fulfilling &c., [Kāv.]; [Pur.]


the swelling or rising of a river or of the sea, a large quantity of water, flood, stream (also met. = abundance, high degree, esp. ifc.), [Kāv.]; [Suśr.] &c.


a cake, [R.] (cf. ghṛta-)


a kind of breath-exercise = pūraka below, [BhP.]


the cleansing of a wound, [L.] (cf. pūraṇa)


the citron tree (= bīja-pūra), [L.]


n. a kind of incense, [L.]


bdellium, [L.]


mf(A)n. a sort of unleavened cake fried with ghee or oil, [W.] (cf. pūrikā below).