वानर

Borrowed from Sanskrit वानर (vānara). Doublet of बंदर (bandar).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.nəɾ/

वानर • (vānar) m (Urdu spelling وانر‎)

1. monkey, ape, primate

   Synonym: बंदर (bandar)

• स्तनपायी (stanpāyī), स्तनधारी (standhārī)

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “vānara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Sanskrit वानर (vānara).

• IPA^(key): /ʋa.nəɾ/

वानर • (vānar) n

1. monkey, baboon

   Synonym: माकड (mākaḍ) (more common)

• वानरी (vānrī, “female monkey”) f (more common) and वानरीण (vānrīṇ, “female monkey”) f (less common)

• James Thomas Molesworth (1857), “वानर”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “vānara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

From वन (van, “forest, wood”). Some native grammarians suggest वन (vana) +‎ नर (nara, “man”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.n̪ɐ.ɽɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑː.n̪ɐ.ɽɐ/

वानर • (vānara) m

1. monkey; any such ape
   • c. 400 BCE, Mahābhārata 1.60.7:

     राक्षसास्तु पुलस्तयस्य वानरा किंनरास्तथा ।
     यक्षाश्च मनुजव्याघ्र पुत्रास्तस्य च धीमतः ।
     पुलहस्य मृगाः सिंहा व्याघ्राः किंपुरुषास्तथा ॥

     rākṣasāstu pulastayasya vānarā kiṃnarāstathā .
     yakṣāśca manujavyāghra putrāstasya ca dhīmataḥ .
     pulahasya mṛgāḥ siṃhā vyāghrāḥ kiṃpuruṣāstathā .

   • c. 800 CE – 1100, Agni Purāṇa 8.8:

     इत्युक्तवा स गतो रामं नत्वोवाच हरीश्वरः ।
     आनीता वानराः सर्वे सीतायाश च गवेषणे ॥

     ityuktavā sa gato rāmaṃ natvovāca harīśvaraḥ .
     ānītā vānarāḥ sarve sītāyāśa ca gaveṣaṇe .

वानर • (vānara)

1. belonging to an ape or monkey, monkey-like

• → Hindi: वानर (vānar)
• → Marathi: वानर (vānar)
• → Telugu: వానరము (vānaramu)
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀯𑀸𑀡𑀭 (vāṇara)
  • Hindi: बंदर (bandar)
• → Indonesian: wanara