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Every entry for a word in Apte, Monier-Williams, Macdonell and the Dhātupāṭha, with their abbreviations spelled out, and an analysis of its forms.

Results for यवन

3 dictionaries · exact headword

Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. यवनyavanaA Greek, an Ionian.

    [यु-युच्]

    1. A Greek, an Ionian.
    2. Any foreigner, or barbarian; Ms.1.44; (the word is applied at present to a Mahomedan or a European also).
    3. A carrot.
    4. Olibanum.
    5. A courser or swift horse.
    6. Speed.
    7. Wheat.
    8. A kind of grass.

    Derived forms and compounds

    • -नाः

      1. (Masculine Plural)
      2. The Ionians or Greeks.
      3. The Greek astrologers.

    • -नम् Mixing, mingling (esp. with water).

    • -अरिः Name of Kṛiṣṇa.

    • -आचार्यः the reputed author of astronomical book called Tājak.

    • -इष्टः

      1. a kind of garlic.
      2. a kind of onion.
      3. the Nimba tree. (-ष्टा) the wild date-tree.
      4. (ष्टम्) lead.
      5. an onion or garlic.
      6. pepper.

    • -देशजम् benzoin.

    • -द्विष्टः bdellium.

    • -प्रियम् pepper.

    Source: Apte

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary
  1. यवनyavanamfn. (√1. यु) keeping away, averting (see द्वेषो-य्/अवन).
    1. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective (√1. यु) keeping away, averting (see द्वेषो-य्/अवन).
    2. neuter gender (√2. यु) mixing, mingling (especially with water) Nya1yam.
    3. masculine, feminine and neuter; or adjective quick, swift
    4. masculine gender a swift horse Lexicographers (probably wrong reading for जवन).
    5. wrong reading for पैजवन Mn. vii, 41.
    6. masculine gender an Ionian, Greek (or a king of the Greeks gaRa कम्बोजा*दि; in later times also a Muhammadan or European, any foreigner or barbarian) Mn. MBh. etc.
    7. masculine gender Name of a caste Gaut. (according to to Lexicographers "the legitimate son of a Kshatriya क्षत्रिय and a Vais3ya1 वैश्या" or "an Ugra उग्र who is an elephant catcher") of a country (Equivalent to यवन-देश, sometimes applied to Ionia, Greece, Bactria, and more recently to Arabia) W.
    8. masculine gender wheat Lexicographers
    9. masculine gender a carrot Lexicographers
    10. masculine gender olibanum Lexicographers
    11. masculine gender plural the Ionians, Greeks (especially the Greek astrologers) MBh. VarBr2S. etc.
    12. masculine gender Name of a dynasty Pur.
    13. feminine Equivalent to जवनी, a curtain Lexicographers
    14. neuter gender salt from saline soil Lexicographers
    Source: Monier-Williams

Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
  1. यवनyavana[yáv-ana] a. [√2. yu] warding off (only --˚); n. [√1. yu] mixing, esp. with water.
    1. [yáv-ana] adjective [√2. yu] warding off (only --˚); neuter [√1. yu] mixing, especially with water.
    2. [yavana] masculine (Ionian), Greek, prince of the Greeks; noun of a caste; foreigner, Ma hommedan (late): plural the Greeks; Greek as trologers; -desa-ga, adjective coming from the land of the Greeks; -pura, neuter city of the Greeks, noun probably of Alexandria; -sena, masculine noun
    Source: Macdonell

Analysis (Beta) · यवन

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