As a Hindi name
गून · noun · feminine
रस्सी जिससे नाव खींचते हैं · रीहा घास — Śabdasāgara
गून · noun · masculine
किसी वस्तु में पाई जानेवाली वह बात जिसके द्वारा वह दूसरी वस्तु से पहचानी जाय । वह भाव जो किसी वस्तु के साथ लगा हुआ हो । धर्म । सिफत · निपुणता । प्रवीणता · कोई कला या विद्या । हुनर — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ गुण
Cited formation "गून" is गू + -न: गू means "Human excrement, ordure, dung, filth", 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: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
Cited formation "गून" is गूना + -न: गूना means "एक प्रकार का सुनहला रंग जो सोने या पीतल से बनाया जाता है और सदूकों, शीशों तथा धतु की अन्य वस्तुओं पर चढा़या जाता है", 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
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
voided (as ordure), Vārtt. 2.
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
gūna mfn. voided (as ordure), Pāṇ. viii, 2, 44, Vārtt. 2.
gūna a. Voided by stool (as ordure).
gūna m. (-naḥ-nā-naṃ) Voided, (as ordure.) E. gū to stool, affix kta, deriv. irr.
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