Translation for "betel-leaf" to spanish
Translation examples
Because you have forgotten to offer me the usual betel leaf,
—Has olvidado ofrecerme la hoja de betel.
And he took Binoy into the room and offered him a betel leaf from the pan box which he carried.
Le introdujo en la habitación y le ofreció una hoja de betel.
Folding the betel leaf into a triangle, Bahram handed it to Zadig, who tucked it into his cheek.
Bahram dobló la hoja de betel en forma de triángulo y se la dio a Zadig, que se la introdujo en la boca.
she only heaved a sigh while Mohim, taking his pan box from his pocket, went out chewing the inevitable betel leaf.
sólo lanzó un suspiro. Mohim sacó del bolsillo su caja de pan, saliendo de la habitación mientras masticaba la inevitable hoja de betel.
There was a corner paan shop where a man doled out ready-made triangles of betel leaf, a stall selling bread pakoras, and even a store for pre-paid phone cards.
Había una tienda de paan en la esquina, donde un hombre despachaba triángulos de hoja de betel ya preparados, un tenderete donde vendían panecillos e incluso una tienda de tarjetas telefónicas de prepago.
From a saddlebag that hung from his side he had extracted a pinch of siri , a mixture made up of ground nuts ground into powder, a small dose of concentrated juice of the bitter and astringent gambir and a little quicklime, the he had wrapped it carefully in a small piece of betel leaf and chewed, with visible satisfaction, that little bullet, occasionally throwing jets of reddish saliva that seemed to be mixed with blood.
Sacó de un morral que llevaba al costado un pedacito de siri y los demás ingredientes de que se forma el buyo, y envolviéndolos en una hoja de betel se entregó con visible complacencia a la operación de mascar aquella droga, escupiendo de cuando en cuando una saliva rosada y como sanguinolenta.
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