वन

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वन (vána). Doublet of बन (ban).

• IPA^(key): /ʋən/

वन • (van) m (Urdu spelling ون‎)

1. forest, jungle, woods

   यह भयानक वन सैकड़ों किलोमीटर तक फैला था।

   yah bhayānak van saikṛõ kilomīṭar tak phailā thā.

   This dreadful forest stretched for hundreds of kilometers.

   Synonyms: जंगल (jaṅgal), बन (ban)

• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “वन”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons

वन (van) m

1. forest, jungle
2. desolate wild place

वन n

1. Devanagari script form of vana

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *wán- (“tree, wood”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬥𐬁‎ (vanā, “tree”), Pashto ونه‎ (wëna, “tree”), Sogdian wn (“tree”), Middle Persian [script needed] (wan /wn'/, “tree”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɐ́.n̪ɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɐ.n̪ɐ/

वन • (vána) n

1. (Vedic) a tree

   Synonym: वृक्ष (vṛkṣa)

2. a forest, wood, grove, thicket, quantity of lotuses or other plants growing in a thick cluster
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda
3. a foreign or distant land
4. wood, timber
5. a wooden vessel or barrel (for the soma juice)
6. a cloud (as the vessel in the sky)
7. (prob.) the body of a carriage.
8. abode
9. coco-grass (Cyperus rotundus).
10. A ray of light.

    Synonym: रश्मि (raśmi)

11. (prob.) longing, earnest desire

• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀯𑀡 (vaṇa)
  • Hindi: बन (ban)

• Monier Williams (1899), “वन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 917.