As a Hindi name
धान · noun · masculine
तृण जाति का एक पौधा जिसके बीज की गिनती अच्छे अन्नों में है । शालि । व्रीहि — Śabdasāgara
धान · noun · feminine
नारी । औरत । जैसे,—लज्जाशीलता स्त्री जाति का आभुषण है · पत्नी । जोरू । जैसे,—वह अपनी स्त्री और बाल बच्चों के साथ आया है · मादा । जैसे,—स्त्री पशु — Śabdasāgara cross-reference followed: दे॰ स्त्री
धान · dhān · s.m.
The rice plant; rice in the husk; a sort of fire-work (rice husks filled with powder and attached to a small stick) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 539
धान · masculine
paddy (rice before threshing)
Cited formation "धान" is ध + -आन: ध means "the nineteenth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आन forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(9) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "धान" is धना + -आन: धना means "A wife, mistress, lady, ( = dhannī, q.v.)", and the suffix -आन forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(9) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit धान्य — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀥𑀡𑁆𑀡 (dhaṇṇa), from Sanskrit धान्य n (dhānya, “grain, corn; rice”). Doublet of धान्य (dhānya).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. dhānya mfn. consisting or made of grain, RV.; AV.
dhānya n. corn, grain, ib. &c. &c. (according to Suśr. only śālayaḥ, ṣaṣṭikāḥ & vrīhayaḥ, the other grains being ku-dhānya, q.v.)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
containing, holding (cf. uda-)
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M1 · same meaning "dhāna" is the vocative of "dhānā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
dhāna mfn. containing, holding (cf. uda-)
dhāna n. receptacle, case, seat (cf. agni-, kṣura-, rajju- &c.; ˚nam aktos prob. = womb or bosom of the night, RV. iii, 7, 6)
dhānā (ā), f., see s.v.
dhānā f. corn, grain (originally the grains of seed from their being ‘laid’ into and ‘conceived’ by the earth, cf. √ 1. dhā, but usually = fried barley or rice or any grain fried and reduced to powder), RV. &c. &c.
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