Jivhā
Jivhā,(f.) [Vedic jihvā,cp.Lat.lingua (older dingua); Goth.tuggo; Ohg.zunga; E.tongue] the tongue.‹-› (a) physically:Vin.I,34; A.IV,131; Sn.673,716; Dh.65,360; J.II,306; PvA.99 (of Petas:visukkha-kanthaṭṭha j.),152.-- Of the tongue of the mahāpurusha which could touch his ears & cover his forehead:Sn.1022; p.108; & pahūta-jivhatā the characteristic of possessing a prominent tongue (as the 27th of the 32 Mahāpurisa-lakkhaṇāni) D.I,106=Sn.p.107; D.II,18.--dujjivha (adj.) having a bad tongue (of a poisonous snake) A.III,260.-- (b) psychologically:the sense of taste.It follows after ghāna (smell) as the 4th sense in the enumn of sense-organs (jivhāya rasaṁ sāyati Nd2 under rūpa; jivhā-viññeyya rasa D.I,245; II,281; M.II,42) Vin.I,34; D.III,102,226; M.I,191; Vism.444.
--agga the tip of the tongue A.III,109; IV,137; DhA.II,33.--āyatana the organ of taste D.III,243,280,290; Dhs.585,609,653; --indriya the sense of taste D.III,239; Dhs.585,609,972; --nittaddana (corr.to --nitthaddhana) tying the tongue by means of a spell D.I,11 (cp.DA.I,96); --viññāṇa the cognition of taste M.I,112; D.III,243; Dhs.556,612,632; --samphassa contact with the sense of taste S.I,115; D.III,243; Dhs.585,632,787.(Page 284)