As a Hindi name
हीन · adj
परित्यक्त । छोड़ा हुआ · रहित । जिसमें न हो । शून्य । वंचित । खाली । विना । बगैर । जैसे,—शक्तिहीन, गुणहीन, धनहीन, बलहीन, श्रीहीन · निम्न कोटि का । नीचे दर्जे का । निकृष्ट । घटिया । जैसे—हीन जाति — Śabdasāgara
हीन · noun · masculine
प्रमाण के अयोग्य साक्षी । बुरा गवाह — Śabdasāgara
हीन · hīna · part.
(rt. hā), Left, forsaken, quitted, abandoned, deserted; excluded, shut out; deprived (of, -se), bereft (of), devoid, destitute; without (often added to substantives to form adjectives, e.g. dhan-hīn, q.v.) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1245
हीन
bad, low, lesser; inferior; empty; lacking, deprived; abandoned
Cited formation "हीन" is ह + -ईन: ह means "the thirty-third consonant in Hindi", and the suffix -ईन forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §10(5) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "हीन" is ही + -न: ही means "an emphatic particle", and the suffix -न forms abstract nouns (masc. or fem.). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(18) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi हीन — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit हीन (hīna), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰHnás, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₁-nós (“abandoned”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
hīna mfn. left, abandoned, forsaken, RV.
left behind, excluded or shut out from, lower or weaker than, inferior to (abl.), Mn.; MBh. &c.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
deficient, defective, faulty, insufficient, short, incomplete, poor, little, low, vile, bad, base, mean, &c. &c.
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M1 · same meaning "hīna" is the vocative of "hīnā" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Dictionary citations
hīna mfn. left, abandoned, forsaken, RV.
left behind, excluded or shut out from, lower or weaker than, inferior to (abl.), Mn.; MBh. &c.
left out, wanting, omitted, MBh.
defeated or worsted (in a lawsuit), Yājñ.
deficient, defective, faulty, insufficient, short, incomplete, poor, little, low, vile, bad, base, mean, ŚBr. &c. &c.
hīnā (ā), f. a female mouse (w.r. for dīna), L.
Alternative readings
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