Dry ginger. Used very commonly with onion in onion-ginger paste - base for many sauces for fish preparations

Synonyms in other languages

Bengali

• shoont

Gujarati

• adu
• sonth
• sunthi
• અથાણું (athanu)

Hindi

• hasi sunthi
• ona soonti
• sonda
• sonth
• sunthi
• udrak
• अद्र्क or अदरक (adrak)

Kannada

• ಶುಂಟಿ (shunti)
• ಶುಂಠಿ (shoont)

Konkani

• sunthi
• आल्ले (aale)

Latin names

• Zingiber officinale (Roscoe)

Malayalam

• ഇഞ്ചി (enji)
• ഇഞ്ചി (inji)

Marathi

• aale
• ale
• sonth
• sunthi

Nepali

• adua
• sutho

Oriya

• adrak

Punjabi

• ਅਦਰਕ (adrak)

Sinhala

• ඉඟුරු (inguru)
• ඉඟුරුපියලි (ingurupiyali)

Tamil

• sukku
• இஞ்சி (inji)

Telugu

• sonth
• అల్లం (allam)

Urdu

• ادرک (adrak)

Countries

• Bangladesh
• India

Regions

• West Bengal