As a Hindi name
चोदना · ćodnā · v.t.
To copulate with, to have sexual intercourse with — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 449
चोदना
to fuck (to have sexual intercourse (with); to copulate (with)) (someone)
Śabdasāgara also records: वह वाक्य जिसमें कोई काम करने का विधान हो । विधि वाक्य · प्रेरणा
Cited formation "चोदना" is चोद + -ना: चोद means "fuck, fucker (objectionable person)", and the suffix -ना forms infinitives. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(19) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "चोदना" is चोदना + -ना: चोदना means "to fuck (to have sexual intercourse (with); to copulate (with)) (someone)", and the suffix -ना forms infinitives. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(19) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit चोदति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *चोद्दइ (cŏddaï), perhaps from Sanskrit चोदति (codati, “to impel, to cause to move”) with expressive doubling. Cognate with Punjabi ਚੋਦਣਾ /چودنا (codṇā), Bengali চোদা (cōda), Odia ଚୋଦିବା (codibā), Gujarati ચોદવું (codvũ), Marathi चोदणे (codṇe).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
reproof (as in Pāli)
Verified derivationMultiple readings (3)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "codanā" is the feminine form of "codana" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
codanā f. reproof (as in Pāli), Divyāv. i, 54
codanā 1 Sending, directing, throwing. 2 Urging or driving onward. 3 Prompting, inciting, encouraging, inspiration. 4 A precept, sacred commandment, scriptural injunction. Comp. — guḍaḥ a ball for playing with.
codanā f. (-nā) 1 A precept, a sacred ordinance or commandment. 2 Sending, commanding, directing, &c. 3 Enjoining, ordaining. 4 Casting, throwing. E. cuda to command, &c. affixes lyu and ṭāp.
codana mfn. impelling, AV. vii, 116, 1 (cf. ṛṣi-, eka-, kīri-, brahma-, radhra-cod˚)
codana f. n. impelling, invitation, direction, rule, precept, VS. xxix, 7; RPrāt.; ŚāṅkhŚr.; KātyŚr.; Lāṭy.; Mn. ii, &c.
Alternative readings
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