parijat

parijat

English

Etymology

From Marathi पारिजात (pārijāt).

Noun

parijat (uncountable)

1. (India) The night-blooming jasmine, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 355:

     ‘What are you betting?’ I looked out of the window. ‘The flowers from the parijat tree.’

   • 2008, Michael Charles Baltutis, The Festival of Indra, p. 220:

     In order to completely carry out this bartā, she required a flower from the parijāt tree, a tree that does not grow in the heavenly city of Indra.

   • 2013, Indu Sundaresan, The Indu Sundaresan Collection:

     She turned away and cleared the parijat flowers from the stone edge of the pool with a wet hand.