Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

[इ-कन्]

1. One, single, alone, only; वायुर्यथैको भुवनं प्रविष्टो ... एकस्तथा ... Kaṭh. Up.2.5.1. Mb.4.49.5,6; बलिभिर्मुखमाक्रान्तं पलितैरङ्कितं शिरः । गात्राणि शिथिलायन्ते तृष्णैका तरुणायते ॥ Bh.3.14.
2. Not accompanied by anyone; एकः संप्रति नाशितप्रियतमस्तामद्य रामः कथम् Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)2.28.
3. The same, one and the same, identical; (adopted by him, her real father being Daśaratha) in marriage to him, who being greatly pleased caused copious showers of rain to fall in his kingdom. It was this sage that performed for king Daśaratha the sacrifice which brought about the birth or Rāma and his three brothers].

1. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective (√इ Un2. iii, 43, probably from a base ए; confer, compare Zend ae-va; Greek οἰ-ν-ός, οἶος; Gothic ai-n-s; also Latin aequu-s; gaRa सर्वा*दि Pa1n2. 1-1, 27; see grammar 200), one (एकोपि, or एकश्-चन, with न preceding or following, no one, nobody; the words एकया न or एकान् न are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one exempli gratia, 'for example' एकान् न त्रिंशत्, twenty-nine) fg-veda etc.
2. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective (with and without एव) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound'; confer, compare धर्मै*क-रक्ष, etc.) fg-veda etc.
3. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective the same, one and the same, identical S3Br. v Ka1tyS3r. Mn. etc.
4. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective one of two or many (एक - एक, एक - द्वितीय, the one - the other; especially plural एके, some, एके - अपरे some - according to others, etc.) S3Br. Ka1tyS3r. MBh. Hit. etc.
5. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective (एक repeated twice, either as a compound [confer, compare एकै*क] or uncompounded, may have the sense "one and one", "one by one" fg-veda i, 20, 7; 123, 8; v, 52, 17 R. BhP. etc.)
6. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective single of its kind, unique, singular, chief, pre-eminent, excellent Ragh. Katha1s. Kum. etc.
7. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective sincere, truthful MW.
8. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective little, small Lexicographers
9. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective (sometimes used as an indefinite article), a, an R. S3ak. Vet. etc. (the fem. of एक before a Taddhita तद्धित suffix and as first member of a compound is एक not एका Pa1n2. 6-3, 62)
10. masculine gender Name of a teacher A1p.
11. masculine gender of a son of Raya रय BhP.
12. neuter gender unity, a unit (in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound') Hcat.
13. (in compound)