As a Hindi name
तेन · noun · masculine
गीत का आरंभिक स्वर — Śabdasāgara
Cited formation "तेन" is ते + -न: ते means "tā = wǒh", 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
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
on that account, for that reason, therefore (correl. to yena [; ], yad [; ], yasmāt [; ], yatas [; ])
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M1 · same meaning "tena" is the instrumental of "tad" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "tena" is the instrumental of "ta" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
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Dictionary citations
1. tena m. a note or cadence introductory to a song.
2. tena ind. (instr. of 2. ta) in that direction, there (correl. to yena, ‘in which direction, where’), SaddhP. iv; Pāṇ. ii, 1, 14, Kāś.
in that manner, thus (correl. to yena, ‘in what manner’), PārGṛ. ii, 2; Mn. iv, 178; Vop. v, 7
on that account, for that reason, therefore (correl. to yena [Mn.; MBh.], yad [ŚBr. iv, 1, 5, 7; Mn. i, iii; R. ii], yasmāt [MBh.; R.], yatas [Sāh. i, 2; Hit.])
tena hi, therefore, now then, Śak.; Vikr. i, 3/4.
tad (nom. and acc. sg. n. of and base in comp. for 2. ta from which latter all the cases of this pron. are formed except nom. sg. m. sas or sa & f. sā; instr. pl. tais, AV. &c.; Ved. tebhis, RV.; AV. &c.) m. he f. she n. it, that, this (often correlative of ya generally standing in the preceding clause, e.g. yasya buddhiḥ sa balavān, ‘of whom there is intellect he is strong’; sometimes, for the sake of emphasis, connected with the 1st and 2nd personal pronouns, with other demonstratives and with relatives, e.g. so 'ham, ‘I that very person, I myself’ [tasya = mama, Nal. xv, 10]; tāv imau, ‘those very two’; tad etad ākhyānam, ‘that very tale’, AitBr. vii, 18; yat tat kāraṇam, ‘that very reason which’, Mn. i, 11; yā sā śrī, ‘that very fortune which’, MBh. vii, 427), RV. &c.
tad (tad) n. this world (cf. idam), R. vi, 102, 25
1. ta the 1st dental consonant.
2. ta pronom. base See tad
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