As a Hindi name
गान · noun · masculine
[वि॰ गेय, गेतव्य] · गाने की क्रिया । संगीत । गाना · गाने की चीज । गीत — Śabdasāgara
गान · noun · feminine
टाट, कंबल या चमड़े आदि की बनी हुई वह खुरजी किसमें दो ओर अनाज आदि भरने का स्थान होता है और जो भरकर बैलों की पीठ पर रखी जाती है । लदने पर इसका एक भाग बैल के एक तरफ और दूसरा दूसरी तरफ रहता है · साधारण बोरा । खास बोरा · टाट का कोई थैला ।—(लश॰) — Śabdasāgara
गान · gān · s.m.
Singing; a song — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 893
गान · masculine
song, singing
Cited formation "गान" is ग + -आन: ग means "the third consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आन forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(9) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "गान" is गा + -न: गा means "अ॰ [सं॰ गत, प्रा॰ गअ] गया", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi गान — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गान (gāna). Doublet of गाना (gānā).” — 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-.)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
singing, song
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gāna n. singing, song, KātyŚr.; Lāṭy. i, vii; Hariv. 11793; Śiś. ix, 54
a sound, L. (cf. araṇya-, ūha-, ūhya-.)
gāna 1.
gāna n. (-naṃ) 1 Singing, song in general, or a song. 2 Sound. E. gai to sing, affix lyuṭ.
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