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"dhenu" has 3 results

dhenu: neuter nominative singular stem: dhenu

dhenu: neuter accusative singular stem: dhenu

dhenu: neuter vocative singular stem: dhenu

Amarakosha Search

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Word	Reference	Gender	Number	Synonyms	Definition

churikā	2.8.93	Feminine	Singular	śastrī, asiputrī, asidhenukā

gauḥ	2.9.67-72	Feminine	Singular	upasaryā, rohiṇī, bahusūtiḥ, kapilā, navasūtikā, ekahāyanī, droṇakṣīrā, bandhyā, saurabheyī, garbhopaghātinī, arjunī, acaṇḍī, dhavalā, vaṣkayiṇī, dvivarṣā, pīnoghnī, tryabdā, samāṃsamīnā, sandhinī, vaśā, praṣṭhauhī, naicikī, pareṣṭukā, pāṭalā, suvratā, caturabdā, droṇadugdhā, avatokā, usrā, kālyā, aghnyā, sukarā, kṛṣṇā, dhenuḥ, ekābdā, pīvarastanī, trihāyaṇī, māheyī, vehad, śṛṅgiṇī, bālagarbhiṇī, śavalī, cirasūtā, dvihāyanī, sukhasaṃdohyā, caturhāyaṇī, dhenuṣyā, sravadgarbhā, mātā(49)	cow

kariṇī	2.8.37	Feminine	Singular	dhenukā, vaśā

Monier-Williams Search

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dhenu

mfn. milch, yielding or giving milk

dhenu

f. a milch cow or any cow

etc. (in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' of names of animals also denoting the female of any species of khaḍga--, go--, vaḍava--)

dhenu

f. any offering or present to Brahmans instead or in the shape of a cow (mostly in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound' [ see ghṛta--, jala--, tila--etc.] , where it also forms diminutives; see asi--, khaḍga--)

dhenu

f. metaph. = the earth

dhenu

f. plural any beverage made of milk

dhenu

n. Name of a sāman-

(also marutāṃ dh-and dhenu-payasī- dual number)

Macdonell Vedic Search

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dhenu	dhe-nú, f. cow, i. 160, 3; ii. 35, 7 [yielding milk: dhe = dhā suck].

Macdonell Search

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dhenu	a. yielding milk; f. milch cow, cow; fig. earth: pl. milk.

Vedic Index of
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dhenu	In the Rigveda and later means * milch cow,’ which is often mentioned with special reference to the production of milk, and is contrasted with the bull ’ (vrsabha, pumāmsf aηadvāh). In the plural the word denotes * draughts of milk.’ The derivative, dheηukā, means merely * female.’

Bloomfield Vedic
Concordance

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dhenu	gāya Kś.26.5.2. Cf. Lś.1.6.26.

Vedabase Search

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dhenu	cows	CC Antya 14.107

dhenu	of cows	SB 10.58.50-51

dhenu	the cows	CC Madhya 17.197

DCS with thanks

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dhenu	noun (feminine) a milch cow or any cow (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) any beverage made of milk (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) any offering or present to Brāhmans instead or in the shape of a cow (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) metaph. the earth (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988)) Frequency rank 2688/72933

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