पावन

Borrowed from Sanskrit पावन (pāvana).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /pɑː.ʋən/,

पावन • (pāvan)

1. purifying; pure, holy

   पावन पर्व ― pāvan parv ― holy festival

पावन • (pāvan) m (Urdu spelling پاوَن) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

1. fire

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:आग

2. water
3. dung

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “पावन”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 2980
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “पावन”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 422
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “पावन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 626

From the stem of पावयति (pāvayati, causative) +‎ -अन (-ana).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /pɑː.ʋɐ.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.ʋɐ.n̪ɐ/

पावन • (pāvana) stem

1. purificatory, purifying, sanctifying, pure, holy
   • c. 500 BCE – 100 BCE, Rāmāyaṇa 7.82.9:

     अत्य् अद्भुतम् इदं वाक्यं तव राम शुभाक्षरम् ।
     पावनस् सर्वभूतानां त्वम् एव रघुनन्दन ॥

     aty adbhutam idaṃ vākyaṃ tava rāma śubhākṣaram.
     pāvanas sarvabhūtānāṃ tvam eva raghunandana.

     Very wonderful is your well-worded statement, O Rāma;
     You alone are holy of all beings, O descendant of Raghu.

• Monier Williams (1899) “पावन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 623.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “pāvana”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “पावन”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 1016