आनन

Borrowed from Sanskrit आनन (ānana).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɑː.nən/,

आनन • (ānan) m (Urdu spelling آنن)

1. (anatomy, rare) mouth, face

   Synonyms: मुँह (mũh), चेहरा (cehrā)

• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “आनन”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• Platts, John T. (1884) “आनन”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

From अन् (an), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind, breeze”), Latin animus (“life force”), Old Armenian հողմ (hołm, “wind”), Tocharian B āñme, Old English anda (“zeal, anger”), Old Irish anál (“breath”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɑː.nɐ.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɑː.n̪ɐ.n̪ɐ/

आनन • (ānana) stem, n

1. the mouth
2. the face

• आन (āná)

• Pali: ānana
• Hindi: आनन (ānan)
• → Tamil: ஆனனம் (āṉaṉam)
• → Telugu: ఆననము (ānanamu)

• Monier Williams (1899) “आनन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 139, column 3.