n. (once m.;for 2.See) a forest, wood, grove, thicket, quantity of lotuses or other plants growing in a thick cluster (but in older language also applied to a single tree) etc.
n. tree (V.); forest (V., C.); thicket (of reeds), cluster, group (of lotuses), quantity (C.); wood (RV.); (wooden) trough for Soma (RV.); (trough of the sky), cloud (V.); water (C., rare); abode (C., very rare).
In the Rigveda and later denotes the ‘forest,’ not necessarily of trees only, but, like Araṇya, the wild uninhabited land. It also means ‘ wooden cup ’ used in the Soma ritual, and in one passage perhaps a part of the chariot.
noun (neuter) a cloud (as the vessel in the sky) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a foreign or distant land (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a forest (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a fountain (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a ray of light (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a wooden vessel or barrel (?) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
abode (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
abundance (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Cyperus Rotundus (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
earnest desire (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
grove (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
longing (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
plenty (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
quantity of lotuses or other plants growing in a thick cluster (but in older language also applied to a single tree) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
spring (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the body of a carriage (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
thicket (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
timber (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
water (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
wood (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
wood (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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