As a Hindi name
गाना · masculine
song
गाना
to sing
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit गान — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit गान (gāna). Cognate with Assamese গান (gan), Bengali গান (gan), Gujarati ગાણું (gāṇũ), Marathi गाणे (gāṇe), Punjabi ਗਾਣਾ (gāṇā). Doublet of गान (gān), a tatsama.” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
gāna n. singing, song, KātyŚr.; Lāṭy. i, vii; Hariv. 11793; Śiś. ix, 54
a sound, L. (cf. araṇya-, ūha-, ūhya-.)
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit गायति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sanskrit गायति (gāyati), from the root गै (gai, “to sing”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
[gādha-in] N. of the father of Viśvāmitra (he is supposed to have been an incarnation of Indra and born as the son of king Kauśāmba). Comp. — an epithet of Viśvāmitra
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Dictionary citations
gādhin m. (= gāthin) N. of Viśvā-mitra's father (king of Kānyakubja), MBh. i, iii; R. i, 20, 5.
gādhiḥ, gādhin m. [gādha-in] N. of the father of Viśvāmitra (he is supposed to have been an incarnation of Indra and born as the son of king Kauśāmba). Comp. — jaḥ, -naṃdanaḥ, -putraḥ an epithet of Viśvāmitra. — nagaraṃ, -puraṃ an epithet of Kānyakubja, the modern Kanoja.
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