વન

Gujarati

noun
Definitions
  • forest, woods, jungle
  • (figuratively) exile, vagrancy
  • (poetry) one of the 33 varieties of the મોહનવસ્તુ mātrika meter, consisting of 13 guru syllables, 38 laghu syllables for a total of 51 syllables and 64 matras

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वन (forest, grove, thicket, wood, tree, timber) derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wán- (tree, wood).

Origin

Proto-Indo-Iranian

*wán-

Gloss

tree, wood

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Kanji

木, 樹

Emoji
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