विना

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See also: वन and बिना

Hindi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit विना (vínā). Doublet of बिना (binā).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ʋɪ.nɑː/,

Preposition

विना (vinā) (Urdu spelling وِنَا)

  1. (rare, formal) without, lacking
    Synonyms: बग़ैर (baġair), बिना (binā)

References

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Etymology

From वि (), plus an uncertain second element which has been theorized to be a fossilized Proto-Indo-European ablative suffix *-neh₁, related to Proto-Germanic *-nē (cf. *-anē, *fanē) and perhaps Latin *-nē in supernē. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

Postposition

विना (vínā)

  1. without, except
    त्वां विना न गमिष्यामि।
    tvāṃ vinā na gamiṣyāmi.
    I will not go without you.

Usage notes

The word preceding विना (vinā) is usually inflected in instrumental case. For example, त्वया विना (without you), मया विना (without me), etc. However, at times depending on the context, that word can be inflected in accusative or ablative case too.

Descendants

Borrowed terms

References

  • Monier Williams (1899) “विना”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 969.
  • वि॑ना” in Carl Cappeller, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary: Based upon the St. Petersburg Lexicons, Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1891, →OCLC, page 498.
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “vínā”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 557
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vínā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press