As a Hindi name
माणव · noun · masculine
मनुष्य । आदमी · बालक । बच्चा · सोलह लड़ी का हार — Śabdasāgara
माणव · māṇava · s.m.
A youth, lad, youngster, juvenile; a little man, manikin (used contemptuously) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 986
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a youth, lad, youngster (esp. a young Brāhman; also contemptuously = little man, manikin), on &c. (cf. daṇḍa-m˚)
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Dictionary citations
māṇava m. a youth, lad, youngster (esp. a young Brāhman; also contemptuously = little man, manikin), Kāty.; Kār. on Pāṇ. iv, 1, 161 &c. (cf. daṇḍa-m˚)
a pearl ornament of 16 strings, L.
(with Jainas) N. of one of the 9 treasures.
māṇava m. (-vaḥ) 1 A child. 2 A man, (in a contemptuous sense,) a manikin. 3 A necklace of sixteen strings. E. manu a man, and aṇ aff.; also mānava.
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