As a Hindi name
हायन · noun · masculine
वर्ष । संवत्सर । साल · एक प्रकार का चावल (को॰) · आग की लौ । लपट (को॰) — Śabdasāgara
हायन · hāyan · s.m.
A year — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1217
Cited formation "हायन" is हाय + -न: हाय means "alas!", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a sort of red rice (pl. its grains)
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Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the masculine and the neuter — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
1. hāyana mf(ā or ī)n. (for 2. See p. 1297, col. 1) quitting, leaving, MW.
passing away, ib.
2. hāyana m. n. (accord. to native authorities fr. √ 1. or 2. hā; but cf. hayana) a year (ifc. f(ī). , and accord. to Pat. on Pāṇ. iv, 1, 27 also f(ā). ), AV. &c. &c.
hāyana m. a sort of red rice (pl. its grains), MaitrS.; ŚBr.; KātyŚr.
a flame, ray, L.
Alternative readings
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