As a Hindi name
कुण · noun · masculine
चीलर · नाभि का मैल । कीट · बच्चा — Śabdasāgara
कुण · pron
कौन — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "कुण" is कु- + ण: ण means "the fifteenth consonant in Hindi", and the prefix कु- forms bad, evil. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(20) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a kind of insect living in clothes
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Dictionary citations
kuṇa m. a kind of insect living in clothes
dirt on the navel, Gal.
(ifc. with aśvatthapīlu, and other names of trees or flowers) the time when a plant bears fruit, Pāṇ. v, 2, 24.
kuṇa r. 6th cl. (kuṇati) 1 To sound. 2 To cherish, to support or aid with gifts, &c. 3 To be in pain. r. 10th cl. (kuṇayati) 1 To converse with, to speak to or address. 2 To counsel or advise.
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