phalgú mf([˘'U], or vii)n. reddish, red TS.

• small, minute, feeble, weak, pithless, unsubstantial, insignificant, worthless, unprofitable, useless VS. &c. &c

• f. Ficus Oppositifolia L.

• a red powder usually of the √of wild ginger (coloured with sappan wood and thrown over one another by the Hindūs at the Holī festival

• cf. phalgū7tsava) W.

• the spring season L.

• (scil. vāc) a falsehood lie L.

• N. of a river flowing Past Gayā MBh. Hariv.

• du. (in astrol.) N. of a Nakshatra