Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“hell”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“hell”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
घातन · adj
वध करनेवाला । कत्ल करनेवाला — Śabdasāgara
घातन · noun · masculine
घात । प्रहार · वध । कत्ल · बलिदान । पशुबलि करना — Śabdasāgara
घातन · ghātan · adj.
Killing, slaying — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 928
Cited formation "घातन" is घात + -न: घात means "blow, attack, hit", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
slaying, killing, slaughter, immolating
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Dictionary citations
ghātana mfn. killing, Uṇ. v, 42 (also ghat˚)
ghātana m. N. of an inhabitant of a hell, L.
ghātana n. slaying, killing, slaughter, immolating, MBh. ii, 1558; Kathās. xx, 214; Devīm.
ghātana a. [han ṇic bhāve lyuṭ] A killer, murderer. — naṃ 1 Striking, killing, slaughter. 2 Killing (as an animal at a sacrifice), immolating.
ghātana m. (-naḥ) A murderer, a killer. n. (-naṃ) 1 Killing, slaughter. 2 Striking. 3 Immolating victims. E. hana to kill, yun affix, and ghāta substituted for the radical.
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