As a Hindi name
पाठन · noun · masculine
पढाने की क्रिया या भाव । शिक्षण । पढा़ना । अध्यापन — Śabdasāgara
पाठन · pāṭhan · s.m.
Reading; lecturing, teaching — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 215
Cited formation "पाठन" is पाठ + -न: पाठ means "learning, reading; memorization", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "पाठन" is पाठना + -न: पाठना means "पढा़ना", 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: Śabdasāgara
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
recitation, teaching, lecturing
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
pāṭhana mf(ī). g. gaurādi
pāṭhana n. recitation, teaching, lecturing, Pañcad.
pāṭhana n. (-naṃ) Lecturing, teaching. E. paṭha to read, causal v., lyuṭ aff.
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