वामन

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit वामन (vāmaná). Doublet of बौना (baunā).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.mən/,

वामन • (vāman) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling وامن)

1. (rare, formal) small, dwarfish

वामन • (vāman) m (Urdu spelling وامن)

1. (rare, formal) a dwarf

वामन • (vāman) m (Urdu spelling وامن) (Hinduism)

1. Vāmana (the fifth avatar of Viṣṇu)
2. name of Śiva
3. name of the elephant that supports the south or west quarter

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “वामन”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वामन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “वामन”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

वामन

1. Devanagari script form of vāmana

Maybe levelled from an earlier *वामन् (*vāmán, “deficient, lacking”), from the same origin as ऊन (ūna). See also वाम (vāma, “left”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋɑː.mɐ.nɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑː.mɐ.n̪ɐ/

वामन • (vāmana) stem

1. dwarfish, small or short in stature
2. bent, inclined
3. relating to a dwarf
4. relating to the elephant Vāmana
5. relating to Viṣṇu (especially in his fifth avatāra)

वामन • (vāmaná) stem, m

1. a dwarfish bull
2. a goat with particular marks
3. a person born under a particular constellation
4. a mare
5. a sort of woman

वामन • (vāmaná) stem, m

1. (Hinduism) Vāmana (the fifth avatar of Viṣṇu)
2. name of Śiva
3. name of the elephant that supports the south or west quarter
4. name of a particular month
5. name of a serpent-demon
6. name of a particular disease of the vagina
7. name of a yogini
8. name of a son of Garuḍa
9. name of a son of Hiraṇyagarbha
10. name of one of the 18 attendants of the Sun
11. name of a dānava
12. name of a muni
13. name of a poet who was the minister under Jayāpīḍa
14. name of various other scholars and authors (especially of one of the authors of the Kāśikā-vṛtti, the other being Jayāditya, and of the author of the Kāvyālaṃkāra-vṛtti)
15. Alangium hexapetalum

वामन • (vāmaná) stem, n

1. name of a place of pilgrimage
2. the Vāmana Purāṇa

• Pali: vāmana
• Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀯𑀸𑀫𑀡 (vāmaṇa)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: बौना (baunā)

    Urdu: بونا (baunā)

  • Nepali: बाउन्ने (bāunne)
• → Hindustani: (learned)

  Hindi: वामन (vāman)

  Urdu: وامن (vāman)

• Monier Williams (1899) “वामन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 941, column 3.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “vāmaná”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 544
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vāmaná”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press