OK, thanks Tapas ji. I can only think that this climbing shrub has some affinity to Sal trees. Its Assamese name is শাল লতা sal lata; Nepali name is साल लहरा sal lahara. In a white paper - Species composition, distribution, life forms and folk nomenclature of forest and common land plants of western Chitwan, Nepal <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3434227/>, the etymology of *sal lahara* is a plant that climbs on “Sal” (*Shorea robusta* Gaertn.)
It could most probably be that this plant Spatholobus parviflorus is funnily called as Sal Uncle in Bengali ! Regards. Dinesh On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]> wrote: > Absolutely no meaning Dinesh ji. Sal is what you know but mama means > brother of mother! In Assam some Bengali dialects are there and it may be > some of them! > > Regards. > > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Tapas ji, I am curious to know whether this name has any meaning. It >> appears only in one site >> <http://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/lonewolf/29734451> (in Bangla >> script). >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thank you very much Tapas ji. >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:22 PM, Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> *Salmama in Bengali script: শালমামা * >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear friends, and Tapas ji, >>>>> >>>>> Please help me with the Bengali name salmama of *Spatholobus >>>>> parviflorus*, in native script. >>>>> Reference: Flora of Assam >>>>> <https://archive.org/stream/FloraOfAssam2/Flora%20of%20Assam2#page/n79/mode/2up/search/Spatholobus> >>>>> Vol. II >>>>> >>>>> Most probably sal refers to sal tree - *Shorea robusta* >>>>> >>>>> Regards. >>>>> Dinesh >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
