that which protects (from injury, loss, damage, etc.).

a demon; a giant.

to rescue, protect from harm, danger, injury, etc; to save; to guard.

of or relating to demons, giants.

very big; huge; colossal; enormous; immense.

fierce; savage; violently cruel; ferocious.

a member of a race of huge beings of human form who war with the gods; a giant; a demon; a devil; an evil spirit.

(fig.) an extremely cruel, wicked man.

Naiřti, the regent of south-west direction.

one of the ways of marriage, in which the bride is taken by force, sometimes by defeating her parents in a fight.

the fiftieth year in the cycle of the Hindu cycle of sixty years.

the aloe plant Agave americana of Agavaceae family; hill aloe; demon aloe.

a female giant, demon.

(fig.) an extremely cruel, wicked woman.

the plant Pavonia odorata of Malvaceae family; fragrant sticky mallow.