As a Hindi name
गाना · masculine
song
गाना
to sing
Platts (p. 893) also records: (f. gāminī), Going, moving on, or in, or towards, moving in any peculiar manner; going in (to), having intercourse with (used as last member of compounds)
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
going anywhere (local adv. or acc. [, ] or prati, )
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
gāmin mfn. going anywhere (local adv. [MBh. i] or acc. [Pāṇ. ii, 3, 70, Kāś.] or prati, MBh. iv)
(in the following meanings only) ifc. (Pāṇ. ii, 1, 24, Vārtt. 1) going or moving on or in or towards or in any peculiar manner, Mn. iii, 10; MBh. &c.
having sexual intercourse with, Yājñ. ii, 234 (cf. mātṛ-g˚)
reaching or extending to, R. v; VarBṛS.
coming to one's share, due, Yājñ. ii; MBh. xiii; Hariv.; Śak. &c.
Alternative readings
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