As a Hindi name
पाना · masculine
spanner, wrench
पाना
to get, receive; to obtain; to win, attain, achieve; to find, come upon, meet
Platts (p. 220) also records: Whitish-yellow, whitish, white
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit प्रापयति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Indo-Iranian *pra- Sanskrit प्र- (pra-) Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep- Sanskrit आप् (āp) Proto-Indo-E…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a jasmine blossom
Verified derivationMultiple readings (4)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "pāṇḍara" is the vocative of "pāṇḍarā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine, the masculine, and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
pāṇḍara pāṇḍava. See under pāṇḍu.
pāṇḍara mf(ā)n. whitish-yellow, pale, white, ŚBr. (cf. -vāsas) &c. &c.
pāṇḍara m. a species of plant, L.
N. of a mountain, MārkP.
of a Naga (also ˚raka), MBh.
pāṇḍarā f. N. of a Buddhist Śakti or female energy, MWB. 216 (cf. pāṇḍurā)
Alternative readings
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