As a Hindi name
लोह · loha · s.m.
Iron (either crude or wrought); steel; metal — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 971
लोह · masculine
iron (either crude or wrought); steel; metal; a weapon
Śabdasāgara also records: लाल रंगवाला । तामड़ा · तांबे का वना हुआ
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi लोह — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit लोह (lohá). Doublet of लोहा (lohā).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
loha mfn. (prob. fr. a √ ruh for a lost √ rudh, ‘to be red’; cf. rohi, rohiṇa &c.) red, reddish, copper-coloured, ŚrS.; MBh.
made of copper, ŚBr. (Sch.)
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
iron (either crude or wrought) or steel or gold or any metal
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Dictionary citations
loha mfn. (prob. fr. a √ ruh for a lost √ rudh, ‘to be red’; cf. rohi, rohiṇa &c.) red, reddish, copper-coloured, ŚrS.; MBh.
made of copper, ŚBr. (Sch.)
made of iron, Kauś.
loha m. n. red metal, copper, VS. &c. &c.
loha m. (in later language) iron (either crude or wrought) or steel or gold or any metal
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