Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“disease”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“disease”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
लेना
to take; to buy, get; to take on; an element of compound verbs
Śabdasāgara also records: कान के अग्रभाग में या ऊपर होनेवाला एक रोग
Platts (p. 976) also records: Paste ( = leʼī, the com. form)
Cited formation "लेही" is लेह + -ई: लेह means "Leh (a city, the co-capital of Ladakh, India)", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "लेही" is लेहना + -ई: लेहना means "green chopped millet fodder", and the suffix -ई forms abstract nouns (fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(14) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "लेही" is लेह + -ई: लेह means "Leh (a city, the co-capital of Ladakh, India)", and the suffix -ई forms 'belonging to', 'having', 'coming from' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(6) — 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
a partic. disease of the tips of the ears
Verified derivationWhy this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "lehī" is the nominative of "lehin" — the same word in a different grammatical case, derived from the stem's own paradigm.
Dictionary citations
lehī f. a partic. disease of the tips of the ears, ŚārṅgS.
lehin mfn. licking, a licker (see madhu-l˚).
lehin mfn. (-hī-hinī-hi) Who or what licks, laps, tastes, &c. E. liha to lick, ghinuṇ aff.
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