Nice photo Dinesh ji, We use this in Dal and Arvi. I had a plant growing in our balcony. I will send a photo of it later.
Regards, Mani. On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]> wrote: > This is not cucumber. It is a wild fruit, we have a lot of discussion > recently. It is normally found around cowsheds as the animals enjoy > the fruits in the wild and the seeds sprout from the dried cattle > dropping. We have a lot of it in our area. > Regards > Yazdy. > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Cucumis sativus > > > > > > KOO-koo-mis -- from the Greek kykyon meaning, cucumber > > sa-TEE-vus -- cultivated > > > > > > commonly known as: cucumber • Arabic: خيار khiyar • Assamese: তিয়ঁহ > tiyoh, > > তিঁহু tihu • Bengali: শশা sasa • Gujarati: કાકડી kakadi • Hindi: खीरा > khira > > • Kannada: ಸೌತೆಕಾಯಿ sautekayi • Kashmiri: लौरू loru • Konkani: तौशे > taushe • > > Lushai: fang-hma • Malayalam: വെള്ളരി vellari • Manipuri: থবী thabi • > > Marathi: काकडी kakadi, कांकडी kankadi, खिरा khira, तवशी tavashi • > Nepalese: > > काँक्रो kankro, खिर् khir, खिरो khiro, खिर्-काँक्रि khir-kakri • Oriya: > > kakudi • Persian: خيار khiyar • Prakrit: खीरओ khira-o • Punjabi: ਖੀਰਾ > khira > > • Sanskrit: अल्पणः alpanah, अल्पणकः alpanakah, चर्भटी charbati, ईर्वारुः > > irvaaruh, क्षीरकः kshirakah, त्रपुलम् trapulam, त्रपुसम् trapusam • > Sindhi: > > وَنگيِ vangii • Tamil: வெள்ளரி vellari • Telugu: దోస dosa, కీర kira • > Urdu: > > کهيرا khira > > > > > > > > Attached views from town of Pali (famous for one of super eight temples > of > > Lord Ganesha) > > ... these were posted in earlier thread for ID query ... resolved by > > Gurcharan ji. > > ... more views at > > http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=91314344%40N00&q=Cucumissativus&m=tags > > > > > > > > Regards. > > >
