Local Names
Gmelina arborea is locally called by different names in different languages:
- Languages of India:
- Assamese- Gomari
- Bengali- gamari, gambar, gumbar
- Gujarati- Shewan, Sivan
- Hindi- gamhar, khamara, khumbhari, sewan
- Kannada- kooli mara,Shivane mara, kumbuda, kumulu
- Kasmiri- mara, shivani
- Malayalam- kumbil, kumbulu, kumilu, kumiska, pokki
- Marathi- shivan, siwan
- Oriya- bhodropornni, gambari, kumar
- Punjabi- gumhar, kumhar
- Sanskrit-गम्भारी gambhari, सिन्धुपर्णी sindhuparni, सिन्धुवेषणम् sindhuveshanam, स्तूलत्वचा stulatvach
- Sinhala- Demata
- Tamil- kumla, kumalamaram, kumil(spelled as "Kumizh" nowadays as the nearest phonetic), Venthekku, ummithekku
- Telugu- gumartek, gummadi, summadi
- Languages of South-east Asia:
- Burmese: ယမနေ
- Laotian: ໂຊ
- Mon: ရမ္မာ
- Filipino: Yemane
- Indonesian: Jati putih
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