As a Hindi name
लाना
to bring
Śabdasāgara also records: वे राजनियम या कानून जो देश या राज्य में शांति या सुव्यवस्था स्थापित करने के लिये बनाए जायँ · ऐसे राजनियमों या कानुनों का संग्रह । व्यवहारशास्त्र । धर्मशास्त्र । कानून । जैसे,—हिंदू लॉ । महमडन लॉ
Platts (p. 944) also records: contrac. of lākshā, q.v
Cited formation "ला" is ल + -आ: ल means "the twenty-eighth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "ला" is ल + -आ: ल means "the twenty-eighth consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit लाति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Two theories, or conflation of both: * A reduction from the light verb construction ले आना (le ānā) with the same meaning, explaining the lack of an ergative marker for its subject as आना (ānā) is intransitive. Compare Punjabi ਲਿਆਉਣਾ (liāuṇā) which more transparently is a lexical…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
lāti f. taking, receiving (cf. deva-l˚).
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
the act of taking or giving
Verified derivationMultiple readings (10)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "lā" is the instrumental of "ḷ" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "lā" is the instrumental of "ḹ" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "lā" is the nominative of "loman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "lā" is the feminine form of "la" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Related forms
Dictionary citations
lā f. See s.v.
1. lā cl. 2. P. (Dhātup. xxiv, 50) lāti (pf. lalau, Bhaṭṭ.; aor. alāsīt, ib.; fut. lātā, lāsyati Gr.; ind.p. lātvā, Śatr.), to take, receive, obtain, Kāv.; Sāh.; HPariś.; to undertake, begin, Campak.; to give, Dhātup.
lā [cf. Hind. lenā.]
2. lā f. the act of taking or giving, L.
lā 2 P. (lāti) To take, receive, obtain, take, up; laluḥ khadbhān Bk. 14. 92, 15. 53.
1. ḷ the ninth vowel of the alphabet (resembling the sound lry in revelry; it only appears in some forms of √ kḷp).
2. ḷ m. a mountain, L.
1. ḹ the tenth vowel of the alphabet (the corresponding long vowel to ḷ, entirely artificial and only appearing in the works of some grammarians and lexicographers).
2. ḹ m. Śiva, L.
loman n. (later form of roman, q.v.) the hair on the body of men and animals (esp. short hair, wool &c.; not so properly applicable to the long hair of the head or beard, nor to the mane and tail of animals), RV. &c. &c.
a tail, L.
1. la the 3rd semivowel (corresponding to the vowels ḷ, ḹ, and having the sound of the English l)
a technical term for all the tenses and moods of a finite verb or for the terminations of those tenses and moods (also applied to some forms with kṛt affixes construed like a finite verb, Pāṇ. ii, 3, 69; cf. iii, 2, 124, and when accompanied by certain indicatory letters denoting each tense separately See laṭ; laṅ; liṅ; loṭ; liṭ; luṭ; ḷṭ; luṅ; ḷṅ; leṭ), Pāṇ. iii, 4, 69; 77, Sch.
lūman n. = lūma, L.
lṛ (in gram.) N. of the terminations of the Conditional Mood or N. of that Mood itself.
Alternative readings
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