As a Hindi name
साधारण · adj
जिसमें कोई विशेषता न हो । मामूली । सामान्य । जैसे—साधारण बात, साधारण काम, साधारण उपाय · आसान । सरल । सहज · सार्वजनिक । आम — Śabdasāgara
साधारण · noun · masculine
भाव प्रकाश के अनुसार वह प्रदेश जहाँ जंगल अधिक हों, पानी अधिक हो, रोग अधिक हों और जाड़ा तथा गरमी भी अधिक पड़ती हो · ऐसे देश का जल · सामान्य या सार्वजनिक नियम (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
साधारण · sādhāraṇ · adj.
Belonging or applicable to many, common, general, universal, joint; generic; public; well-known — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 623
साधारण
ordinary, normal; common, general; usual
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi साधारण — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit साधारण (sādhāraṇa).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
sādhāraṇa mf(ī or ā)n. ‘having or resting on the same support or basis’, belonging or applicable to many or all, general, common to all, universal, common to (gen. dat. instr. with and without saha, or comp.), RV. &c. &c.
like, equal or similar to (instr. or comp.), Hariv.; Kālid.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
īā ‘having or resting on the same support or basis’, belonging or applicable to many or all, general, common to all, universal, common to (gen. dat. instr. with and without saha, o…
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Gender counterpart
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Dictionary citations
sādhāraṇa mf(ī or ā)n. ‘having or resting on the same support or basis’, belonging or applicable to many or all, general, common to all, universal, common to (gen. dat. instr. with and without saha, or comp.), RV. &c. &c.
like, equal or similar to (instr. or comp.), Hariv.; Kālid.
behaving alike, Dhūrtas.
having something of two opposite properties, occupying a middle position, mean (between two extremes, e.g. ‘neither too dry nor too wet’, ‘neither too cool nor too hot’), Suśr.; Kām.; VarBṛS.
(in logic) belonging to more than the one instance alleged (one of the three divisions of the fallacy called anaikāntika, q.v.)
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