adjective sour, acrid, astringent (of taste) Mnd.240; Cnd.540; Dhs.629; Dhs-a.320 (reads lapila, variant reading lampila; explained as “badara-sāḷava-kapiṭṭha-sāḷav’ ādi”); Mil.56 (reads ambila).

reading not quite certain, cp. ambila