As a Hindi name
नाक · noun · feminine
मुखमंडल की मांस- पोशियों और अस्थियों के उभार से बना हुआ लन के रूप का वह अवयव जिसके दोनों छेद मुखविवर और फुस्फुस से मिले रहते हैं और जिससे घ्राण का अनुभव और श्वास प्रश्वास का व्यापार होता है । सूँघने और साँस लेने की इंद्रिय । नासा । नासिका · कपाल के कोशों आदि का मल जो नाक से निकलता है । रेंट । नेटा · चरखे में लगी हुई एक चिपटी लंकडी़ जो अगले खूँटे के आगे निकले हुए बेलन के सिरे पर लगी रहती है और जिसे पकड़कर चरखा घुमाते हैं — Śabdasāgara
नाक · noun · feminine
मगर की जाति का एक जलजंतु — Śabdasāgara
नाक · nāka · s.m.
Heaven, firmament, sky, atmosphere, ether; paradise — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1115
नाक · nāk · s.f.
The nose — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1116
नाक · feminine
nose; mucus, phlegm
नाक · masculine
heaven; sky; sun
Cited formation "नाक" is न + -आक: न means "the twentieth consonant of Hindi", and the suffix -आक forms doing habitually, efficiently (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(7) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit नस् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s Proto-Indo-Iranian *náHs Sanskrit नस् (nas) Prakrit 𑀡𑀓𑁆𑀓 (ṇakka) Hindi नाक Inherited from Prakrit णक्क (ṇakka, “nose”), from Sanskrit नस् (nas, “nose”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-). Cognate with Bengali নাক (nak), Punjabi ਨੱਕ (nakka), M…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
1. nas encl. form for acc. gen. dat. pl. of the 1st pers. pron. (Pāṇ. viii, 1, 21), us, of us, to us; in Veda changeable into ṇas (4, 27; 28).
nas, [cf. Zd. na, our; Gk. νῶϊ, νώ; Lat. nos, nos-ter; Old Lat. dat. nis.]
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi नाक — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नाक (nā́ka).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
nāka m. (√ nam [?]; according to Br. & Nir. fr. 2. na + 2. -aka, ‘where there is no pain’ [?]; cf. Pāṇ. vi, 3, 75 and below mfn.) vault of heaven (with or scil. divas), firmament, sky (generally conceived as threefold, cf. tri-diva, tri-nāka, and AV. xix, 27, 4; in VS. xvii, 67 there is a fivefold scale, viz. pṛthivī, antari-kṣa, div, divo-nāka, and svar-jyotis), RV. &c. &c.
the sun, Naigh. i, 4
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
painless
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M3 · meaning shifts "nāka" is derived from "nā" with the ka/kan suffix — a related word whose meaning shifts, so both meanings are shown.
nā f. the navel
a musical instrument
nāka m. (√ nam [?]; according to Br. & Nir. fr. 2. na + 2. -aka, ‘where there is no pain’ [?]; cf. Pāṇ. vi, 3, 75 and below mfn.) vault of heaven (with or scil. divas), firmament, sky (generally conceived as threefold, cf. tri-diva, tri-nāka, and AV. xix, 27, 4; in VS. xvii, 67 there is a fivefold scale, viz. pṛthivī, antari-kṣa, div, divo-nāka, and svar-jyotis), RV. &c. &c.
the sun, Naigh. i, 4
Dictionary citations
nāka m. (√ nam [?]; according to Br. & Nir. fr. 2. na + 2. -aka, ‘where there is no pain’ [?]; cf. Pāṇ. vi, 3, 75 and below mfn.) vault of heaven (with or scil. divas), firmament, sky (generally conceived as threefold, cf. tri-diva, tri-nāka, and AV. xix, 27, 4; in VS. xvii, 67 there is a fivefold scale, viz. pṛthivī, antari-kṣa, div, divo-nāka, and svar-jyotis), RV. &c. &c.
the sun, Naigh. i, 4
N. of a Maudgalya, ŚBr. &c.
of a myth. weapon of Arjuna, MBh.
of a dynasty, VP.
nā f. the navel
a musical instrument
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