कपना (kapanA)

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Capeller Eng

English

 कपना॑ f.
  worm,  caterpillar. 

Spoken Sanskrit

English

कपना 	-	 kapanA 	-	 f.
  	-	  caterpillar
कपना 	-	 kapanA 	-	 f.
  	-	  worm

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 कपना॑ f.
  (√ कम्प्,  Nir.
  vi,  4),  a worm,  caterpillar,  RV.
   v,  54,  6

 कपना [cf.   κάμπη.]

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Monier Williams 1872

English

 कपना कपना,  f. (said to be fr. rt. कम्प्), 
Ved. a worm,  a caterpillar
 [cf. κάμπη]

Vedic Reference

English

 Kapanā,  from its solitary occurrence in the Rigveda, ^1 appears
to mean a ‘worm’ that destroys the leaves of trees,  and is so
interpreted in the Nirukta.^2
1) v. 54,  6.
2) vi. 4. Cf. Zimmer,  Altindisches
Leben,  97
 Max Müller,  Sacred Books of
the East,  32,  330.

Capeller

German

 कपना॑ f.
  Raupe.

Grassman

German

 kapanā́,  f.,  Raupe,  gr. ϰάμπη,  wol als die sich biegende,  krümmende (gr. ϰάμπτω).
-ā́ {408, 6}.

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