... related dicots in the Asarum genus have the common name wild ginger because of their similar taste.In India and Pakistan, ... ginger is called adrak in sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, aad ... inMaithili, aadi in Bhojpuri, aada in Assamese and Bengali, Adu in Gujarati, Allam inTelugu hashi shunti in injiin Tamil and Malayalam, ...