jetuka

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noun

Henna (Lawsonia inermis), as used in Assam.

Originas জেতুকা →
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Meanings

nounjetuka (uncountable)
  1. IndiauncountableHenna (Lawsonia inermis), as used in Assam.

    Her palms, decorated with jetuka, picked up the grains.

    2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 2
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    The leaves of the Jetuka shrub give a red juice when crushed.

    1949, The Eastern Anthropologist, volume 3, page 74

    It is a pleasant sight to see a young girl with her blackened teeth, her palms reddened with the juice of jetuka leaves, her head bedecked with orchid, swaying her figure gracefully and singing erotic quatrains […].

    1965, Praphulladatta Goswami, Folk-literature of Assam, page 8

Origin

  1. asজেতুকা
  2. Englishjetuka

Borrowed from Assamese জেতুকা (zetuka).

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APA

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MLA

“jetuka.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jetuka. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “jetuka,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jetuka.

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