As a Hindi name
लेना
to take; to buy, get; to take on; an element of compound verbs
Śabdasāgara also records: सुहागा
Platts (p. 976) also records: Borax
Cited formation "लेहिन" is लेह + -इन: लेह means "Leh (a city, the co-capital of Ladakh, India)", and the suffix -इन forms feminine of occupation nouns and some others (replaces the final vowel). CHD Basic Grammar App. II §4 — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit लभते — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Etymology tree Sanskrit रभ॑ते (rábhate) Sanskrit लभते (labhate) Prakrit 𑀮𑀳𑀇 (lahaï) ▲ Prakrit 𑀡𑁂𑀇 (ṇei)influ. ▲ Prakrit 𑀤𑁂𑀇 (dei)influ. Prakrit 𑀮𑁂𑀇 (lei) Hindi लेना Inherited from Prakrit लेइ (lei), adapted from लहइ (lahaï) by analogy with देइ (dei, “give”) (whence Hindi देना (de…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
borax
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Dictionary citations
lehina m. borax, L.
lehina m. (-naḥ) Borax. E. liha to lick, aff. ina.
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