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एणी (eNI)

 
Apte
English
एणी [ēṇī], 1 A female black deer.
A kind of poisonous insect.
Comp.
 -पद
a.
 having feet like those of a deer. (-दः) a kind of snake.
Apte 1890
English
एणी 1 A female black deer.
2 A kind of poisonous insect.
Comp.
पद a. having feet like those of a deer. (
दः) a kind of snake.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
एणी
f.
 See एण above.
Macdonell
English
एणी eṇī́,
f.
 gazelle: -dṛś, -nayanā,
f.
 gazelle-eyed 🞄woman.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
एणी
स्त्री*
 - एण-ङीष्
काली हरिणी
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
एणी
पदविभागः - > स्त्रीलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಕೃಷ್ಣಮೃಗ /ಹುಲ್ಲೆ /ಜಿಂಕೆ /ಚಿಗರಿ
निष्पत्तिः - > स्त्रियां जाति० "ङीष्" (४-१-६३)
एणी
पदविभागः - > स्त्रीलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಜಿಂಕೆ
निष्पत्तिः - > "ङीष्" (४-१-६३)
व्युत्पत्तिः - > एणस्य स्त्री
L R Vaidya
English
eRI {% f. %} A female black antelope.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Eṇī (= Pali id.), n. of a river: Karmav 〔34.14, 15〕.
eṇī-, eṇi- (these appear to belong primarily in prior member of cpds. only
see below eṇī-mṛga and -jaṅgha), and eṇeya, m. (= Pali eṇi-miga, also eṇimmiga Jāt. 〔v.416.23〕
eṇi-jaṅgha, also eṇī° MN 〔ii.136.14〕, but v.l. eṇi°
and eṇeyya, m.
= Skt. eṇa, m., eṇī, f., and aiṇeya, regularly adj. but rarely recorded as subst. = eṇa), a kind of deer, the black antelope:
(1) eṇi, abbreviation meant to suggest °jaṅgha, as one of the 32 lakṣaṇa: Mv 〔i.226.17〕 (here mss. vaṇi)
〔ii.30.1〕
(2) eṇījaṅghā ca te āsi Mv 〔ii.305.3〕, and thou hadst antelope-legs (one of the lakṣaṇa)
this lakṣaṇa = Pali eṇijaṅgha (above)
(3) eṇīmṛga, m. (= Pali eṇi°, eṇim°, above). = Skt. eṇa, the black antelope: Mv 〔ii.221.19〕 [Page155-b] (vs) °gāṇa yūthāni
(4) eṇeya, subst., Mv 〔iii.70.13〕 (in list of flesh of various animals, all nouns, prior parts of cpds., ending) kapiñjala-mānsāni eṇeya-mānsāni
Gv 〔400.7〕 eṇeyasyeva mṛgarājño (tasya jaṅghe), in expl. of aiṇeyajaṅgha-tā (as lakṣaṇa)
(5) eṇeya-jaṅgha, having legs like the black antelope (this is the usual form of the lakṣaṇa in BHS
but see also aiṇeya-j°): LV 〔105.22〕 (here °ya-mṛgarāja-j°)
〔429.17〕 (all mss. so, both times)
Bbh 〔375.15〕
RP 〔51.3〕.
Vedic Reference
English
Eṇī denotes the ‘female antelope’ in the later Saṃhitās, ^1
perhaps as the feminine of Eta.
1) Av. v. 14, 11
Taittirīya Saṃhitā,
v. 5, 15, 1
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā,
iii. 14, 17
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv.
36
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 82.