वन
Sanskrit
alt
Definitions
- (Vedic) a tree
- a forest, wood, grove, thicket, quantity of lotuses or other plants growing in a thick cluster
- a foreign or distant land
- wood, timber
- a wooden vessel or barrel (for the soma juice)
- a cloud (as the vessel in the sky)
- (prob.) the body of a carriage.
- abode
- coco-grass (Cyperus rotundus).
- A ray of light.
- (prob.) longing, earnest desire
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wán- (tree, wood).
Origin
Proto-Indo-Iranian
*wán-
Gloss
tree, wood
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
木, 樹
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- вне Russian
- внешний Russian
- вовне Russian
- उपवन Sanskrit
- नर Sanskrit
- वानर Sanskrit
- उपवन Hindi
- वानर Hindi
- พนา Thai
- วานร Thai
- jagawana Indonesian
- wana Indonesian
- wanara Indonesian
- nāve Latvian
- nāviniece Latvian
- nāvinieks Latvian
- nāvīgs Latvian
- ဝနာ Burmese
- vana Pali
- vanasaṇḍa Pali
- vānara Pali
- વન Gujarati
- વાંદર Gujarati
- *wán- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- वानर Marathi
- вънѣ Old East Slavic
- اپون Urdu
- بندر Urdu
- 𑀯𑀡 Sauraseni Prakrit
- 𑀯𑀸𑀡𑀭 Sauraseni Prakrit
- வனம் Tamil
- வானம் Tamil
- வானியல் Tamil
- *nāˀwis Proto-Balto-Slavic
- wana Javanese
- ꦮꦤ Javanese
- ವನ Kannada
- বানৰ Old Assamese
- ونه Pashto, Pushto
- wana Old Javanese
- ꦮꦤ Old Javanese
- बन Bhojpuri
- വനം Malayalam
- ᮝᮔ Sundanese
- વન Kachchi
- 𑀯𑀡 Magadhi Prakrit
- बन Braj
- बन Old Hindi