شلا

िशला śilā, s.f. A stone; rock; a flat stone on which condiments are ground (=sil); a hailstone; the lower timber of a door; a doorframe; a beam or stone placed across the top of a post or pillar; a transverse beam;—red arsenic; camphor:—śilā-pushp, s.m. lit.'Rockflower'; storax or benzoin:—śilā-jatuor śilā-jit, s.m. lit.'Stone-lac,' and 'rock-conquering'; bitumen, storax; red chalk:—śilā-dhātu, s.m. lit.'Rock-mineral'; chalk; red chalk; a white fossil substance; an aluminous earth of a white or yellowish colour:—śilā-ras, s.m. lit.'Rock exudation'; olibanum, benzoin; incense; storax, bitumen; red chalk:—śilā-may, adj. Consisting of stone, made of stone; abounding in stone, rocky, stony:—śilā-valkā, s.f. lit.'Rock-bark'; a kind of moss or lichen (esp. a kind used as a medicinal substance and said to be of cooling and lithonthriptic properties;—vulg. silābāk).