Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In India, a name of the plant also called
ajwan or ajwain, Carum ajowan, or Ptychotis ajowan. It yields ajowan-oil, the distillation-water of which, and the crystalline thymol separating from which, are medicinally used in India, especially as remedies in cholera.
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Arbi like some of its starchy cousins can produce considerable gas in your GIT Gastro-Intestinal Tract and ajwain or omam / carom seeds is an excellent spice to counteract the bloating, so these do make a perfect synergistic pair.
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Arbi like some of its starchy cousins can produce considerable gas in your GIT Gastro-Intestinal Tract and ajwain or omam / carom seeds is an excellent spice to counteract the bloating, so these do make a perfect synergistic pair.
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Khajas too I havent eaten before, tried this from bawarchi's diwali recipes - tastes like our ribbon pakoda especially because of the omam seeds.
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Aruna, Carom seeds is nothing but ajwain...call it omam in Tamil
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(Lord Rama's birthday) on Wednesday from 10am with abishegam, omam and pooja prayers.
WN.com - Articles related to Easter is around: Some inspirational quotes, scraps, SMS 2010
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(Lord Rama's birthday) on Wednesday from 10am with abishegam, omam and pooja prayers.
WN.com - Articles related to Easter is around: Some inspirational quotes, scraps, SMS 2010
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Tali tempoie in luxu - ia & omam mationx occupats eiant, ut ad eam
Conciones et orationes ex historicis Latinis excerptae : argumenta singulis praefixa sunt, quae causam cujusque & summam ex rei gestae occasione explicant : opus recognitum recensitumque in usum scholarum Hollandiae & Westfrisiae. Veratius, Jobus, d. 1571 1672
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; iietti Sbnonj, quo4 ea'quadrato chara£lere et rdiquii eiuadein omam fufnimm ac«
M. Hermann. Frider. Koecheri ... Nova bibliotheca Hebraica, secundum ordinem Bibliothecæ ... Hermann Friedrich Koecher, Johann Christoph Wolf 1783
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