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कना (kanA)

 
Capeller Eng
English
कना॑
f.
 a girl.
Apte
English
कना [kanā],
Ved.
 A girl
the youngest girl
पुनस्तदा वृहति यत् कनाया
Rv.*
 1.61.5.
Apte 1890
English
कना Ved. A girl
the youngest girl.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
कना॑ a
f.
 a girl, maid,
RV.
 x, 61, 5
10
11
21.
कना॑ b See
p.
 248, col. 3.
Monier Williams 1872
English
कना, f., Ved. a girl.
Macdonell
English
कना kanā́,
f.
 girl.
Wordnet
Sanskrit
Synonyms:
 कना, भुजिष्या
noun
सा बालिका या अन्येषां कृते कार्यं करोति।
"तेन पित्रोः सेवार्थे कना नियुक्ता।"
Vedic Reference
English
Kanā, Kanyā. — Both these words, of which the former is
very rare, ^1 while the latter is the normal term from the Rigveda^2
onwards, denote ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman.’ It is doubtful
whether Kanīnakā (accented on the final syllable) has this
meaning, ^3 or only denotes the pupil of the eye, ^4 which is the
sense of kanīnakā or kanīnikā (both accented on the ante-
penultimate) in the later Saṃhitās and the Brāhmaṇas. See
also Strī.
1) Rv. x. 61, 5, etc.
2) i. 123, 10
161, 5
iii. 23, 10, etc.
Av. i. 14, 2
xi. 5, 18
xii, 1, 25,
etc.
3) Roth, St. Petersburg Dictionary,
s.v., cites in this sense Rv. iv. 32,
23
x. 40, 9
Nirukta, iv. 15
but
neither of the Rv. passages is at all
clear.
4) See Bloomfield, Hymns of the Athar-
vaveda, 401
Keith, Aitareya Āraṇyāka,
207. Other rare forms are kanyanā,
Rv. viii. 35, 5
kauyalā, Av. v. 5, 3
xiv. 2, 52.
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
कना स्त्रो कनि नामधातु--अच् । कनिष्ठायाम् । “पुनस्तदावहति यत् कनाया दुहितुः” ऋ० १०, ६१, ५ ।
Capeller
German
कना॑
f.
 Mädchen.
Grassman
German
kanā́, f., Jungfrau [fem. des vorigen].
-ā́yās [Ab.] {887, 5}.
-ā́yās [G.] sakhiám {887, 10}. _{887, 11}
úpamātim {887, 21}.