युवन्

युवन्

1. Devanagari script form of yuvan (“young”)

The instrumental and ablative plural forms given below may rather belong to the derived synonymous adjective युवान (yuvāna, “yuvāna”).

युवन् m

1. Devanagari script form of yuvan (“young man”)

As masculine of the adjective.

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *HyúHan, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō (“young”).

Cognate with Avestan 𐬫𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬥 (yauuan), Persian جوان (javân), Latin iuvenis, Lithuanian jaunas, Old English ġeong (whence English young)).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /jú.ʋɐn/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈju.ʋɐn̪/

युवन् • (yúvan) stem

1. young, youthful, adult (applied to men and animals), strong, good, healthy
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 8.29.1:

     ब॒भ्रुरेको॒ विषु॑णः सू॒नरो॒ युवा॒ञ्ज्य॑ङ्क्ते हिर॒ण्यय॑म्॥

     babhrúréko víṣuṇaḥ sūnáro yúvāñjyàṅkte hiraṇyáyam.

     One (Soma) brown of hue, all-pervading, leader of the nights, ever young, decorates (himself) with golden ornament.

युवन् • (yúvan) stem, m

1. a youth, young man, young animal (in Veda often applied to gods, especially to Indra, Agni, and the Maruts)
2. the younger descendant of any one (an elder being still alive)
3. name of the ninth year in Jupiter's cycle of 60 years

• → Gujarati: યુવાન (yuvān)
• → Hindi: युवा (yuvā)
• → Tamil: யுவன் (yuvaṉ)
• → Telugu: యువ (yuva)

• Monier Williams (1899) “युवन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0855/2.