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किंनर (kiMnara)

 
Capeller Eng
English
किंनर
m.
 a class of mythical beings (half man half
animal).
Monier Williams Cologne
English
किं-नर a
&c.
 See कि॑म्.
किं—नर b
m.
 ‘what sort of man?’ a mythical being with a human figure and the head of a horse (or with a horse's body and the head of a man,
Śiś.
 iv, 38
originally perhaps a kind of monkey
cf.
 वा-नर
in later times (like the Naras) reckoned among the Gandharvas or celestial choristers, and celebrated as musicians
also attached to the service of Kubera
(with Jains) one of the eight orders of the Vyantaras),
Mn.
MBh.
&c.
N.
 of a prince,
VP.
of Nara (a son of Vibhīṣaṇa),
Rājat.
 i, 197
of the attendant of the fifteenth Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī,
Jain.
N.
 of a locality g. तक्षशिलादि
Macdonell
English
किंनर kiṃ-nara,
m.
 fabulous being (half man 🞄half animal) in the service of Kubera
N. of 🞄various persons
-nāmaka (ikā), -nāmadheya, -ta, 🞄a. occasioned by what? -m, why?
Benfey
English
किंनर किंनर, i. e. किम्-नर,
m.
and
f.
 री, A class of demigods attached
to the service of Kuvera, Man. 1, 39.
2. A proper name, Rājat. 1, 197.
L R Vaidya
English
kim-nara {% m. %} a mythical being with a human figure and the head of a horse, जयोदाहरणं बाह्वोर्गापयामास किंनरम् R.iv.78, K.S.i.8.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Kiṃnara, n. of a yakṣa: Māy 〔40〕.
Schmidt Nachtrage zum Sanskrit Worterbuch
German
किंनर 2. Kathās. 37, 64.
Capeller
German
किंनर
m.
 Art mythischer Wesen, ein Kinnara
(halb Mensch halb Tier).