As a Hindi name
वह
that; he, she, it; that one (distal third person singular personal pronoun)
Śabdasāgara also records: देवदाली । बंदाल · वेणी गूँथना या बाँधना (को॰)
Platts (p. 1211) also records: Braided hair, &c. (i.q. benī, q.v.)
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit अदस् — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Uncertain, but most likely from Old Hindi उहु (uhu), उहुं (uhuṃ), from Apabhramsa ओहु (ohu), from Prakrit अहो (aho), from Sanskrit अ॒सौ m (asáu, “that”). The inflected forms are formed by analogy with its proximal counterpart यह (yah) or with सो (so) ~ तिस (tis), the archaic thir…” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
adas nom. m. f. asau (voc. asau, MaitrS.) (n. adas), (opposed to idam, q.v.), that, a certain
adas (adas) ind. thus, so, there.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
braided hair or a braid of hair, hair twisted into a single unornamented braid and allowed to fall on the back (so worn by widows and women who mourn for absent husbands, cf. eka-v…
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M1 · same meaning "veṇi" is the vocative of "veṇin" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
M1 · same meaning "veṇi" is the vocative of "veṇī" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
veṇi f. (fr. √ 1. ve) weaving, braiding, L.
braided hair or a braid of hair, hair twisted into a single unornamented braid and allowed to fall on the back (so worn by widows and women who mourn for absent husbands, cf. eka-veṇi; the water of a river is often compared to such a braid, but in these meanings the form veṇī is more common See below), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
the confluence or meeting of two or more rivers or streams in a common point of union (as at Prayāga or Allāhābād cf. triv˚), W.
property re-united after it has been before divided, Vas.
a cascade, L.
veṇin m. ‘having a hood like braided hair’, N. of a serpent-demon, MBh.
veṇī f. = veṇi, a braid of hair &c., MBh.; Kāv. &c.
a stream, current, L.
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