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Sumbul  n.  (Written also sumbal)  The musky root of an Asiatic umbelliferous plant, Ferula Sumbul. It is used in medicine as a stimulant.





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"Sumbul" Quotes from Famous Books



... usually brought to India from Achin and Tenasserim. Both this and spikenard are mentioned by Polo's contemporary, Kazwini, among the products of Java (probably Sumatra), viz., Java lign-aloes (al-' Ud al-Jawi), camphor spikenard (Sumbul), etc. Narawastu is the name of a grass with fragrant roots much used as a perfume in the Archipelago, and I see this is rendered spikenard in a translation from the Malay Annals in ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa


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