लेखन a. (-नी f.) [लिख्-ल्यु ल्युट् वा] 1 Writing, painting, scratching &c. -2 Exciting, stimulating. -नः A kind of reed of which pens ane made. -नम् 1 Writing, transcribing. -2 Scratching, scraping. -3 Grazing, touching. -4 Attenuating, making thin or emaciated. -5 Cutting or making incisions (in surgery). -6 Scripture. -7 An instrument for scraping. -8 A kind of birch-tree. -9 A palm-leaf (for writing upon). -नी 1 A pen, writing-reed, reed-pen; सुरतरुवरशाखा लेखनी पुत्रमुर्वी Śivamahimna 32. -2 A spoon. -Comp. -वस्तिः a kind of enema for reducing corpulency. -साधनम् writing materials or a apparatus.
a. (î) scratching, scarify ing, lacerating; exciting, stimulating; at tenuating; n. writing down, transcribing: î, f. writing reed, reed-pen; -anîya, fp. to be drawn or painted; to be written.
adjective attenuating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
exciting (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
lancing (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
scarifying (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
scraping (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
scratching (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
stimulating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
noun (neuter) an instrument for scraping or furrowing (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
attenuating (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Betula Bhojpatra (the bark of which is used for writing) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
coming in contact (said of heavenly bodies) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
lancing (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
making thin (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
reducing corpulency (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Skarifizieren
scarifying (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the act of scratching or scraping (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the leaf of the palm tree (used for the same purpose) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
touching (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
transcribing (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
writing down (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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