As a Hindi name
योजन · noun · masculine
परमात्मा · योग · एक में मिलाने की क्रिया या भाव । संयोग । मिलान । मेल । योग — Śabdasāgara
योजन · yojan · s.m.
Joining; junction; union, connection — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1253
Cited formation "योजन" is योजना + -न: योजना means "plan, scheme, strategy", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a stage or Yojana (i.e. a distance traversed in one harnessing or without unyoking; esp. a partic. measure of distance, sometimes regarded as equal to 4 or 5 English miles, but mor…
Verified derivationMultiple readings (5)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "yojana" is the vocative of "yojanā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
yojana &c. See pp. 858, cols. 1, 2.
yojana n. joining, yoking, harnessing, PārGṛ.; Hariv.
that which is yoked or harnessed, a team, vehicle (also applied to the hymns and prayers addressed to the gods), RV.
course, path, ib.
(sometimes m.; ifc. f(ā). ) a stage or Yojana (i.e. a distance traversed in one harnessing or without unyoking; esp. a partic. measure of distance, sometimes regarded as equal to 4 or 5 English miles, but more correctly = 4 Krośas or about 9 miles; according to other calculations = 2 1/2 English miles, and according to some = 8 Krośas), RV. &c. &c.
yojanā (ā), f. application of the sense of a passage, grammatical construction, Śaṃk.
Alternative readings
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