This is again a tricky question Dinesh Sir! Prain and Roxburgh recorded it as GUARA, Voigt none, Piddington as GWARA,
Using the present day practice it will be গুয়ারা or following Piddington গ্বারা the later having no meaning and very unlikely. Since this is found in North Bengal (as per Bengal Plants) I am thinking if the name can be derived from GAUR Bengal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gau%E1%B8%8Da_(city)>. Maybe Usha Di or Sourav can help. Thank you Regards On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Bengali-knowing friends, > Please help with the name "guara" in native script - name given for *Elaeagnus > conferta* Roxb. This name is used in some of n-e Indian languages too. > Reference: North Eastern Institute of Folk Medicine > <http://www.neifm.org/arunachalPage/showdetails/PLANT_ID/2386> > > 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 email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
