हनन

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit हनन (hanana). May also be inherited from Prakrit हणण (haṇaṇa).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɦə.nən/,

हनन • (hanan) m (Urdu spelling ہَنَن)

1. the act of killing, striking, hurting, destroying, removing, dispelling

   Synonyms: मारना (mārnā), पीटना (pīṭnā), नाश (nāś), हटाना (haṭānā), हरण (haraṇ), दूरीकरण (dūrīkraṇ), ताड़न (tāṛan)

2. (rare) a drumstick

   Synonym: चोब (cob)

3. (rare, arithmetic) multiplication

   Synonym: गुणा (guṇā)

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “हनन”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• Platts, John T. (1884) “हनन”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “हनन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• “हनन”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.

From the root हन् (han, “to kill, destroy, strike, hit; to multiply, raise”) +‎ -अन (-ana).

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

हनन • (hanana) stem

1. killer, slayer

हनन • (hanana) stem, m

1. a kind of worm
2. a drumstick

हनन • (hanana) stem, n

1. the act of killing, striking, hurting, destroying, removing, dispelling
2. (arithmetic) multiplication

• Pali: hanana
• Prakrit: हणण (haṇaṇa)
• Hindustani: hanan (or via Prakrit)

  Hindi: हनन

  Urdu: ہَنَن (hanan)

• Monier Williams (1899) “हनन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1287.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “hanana”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
• Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “हनन”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “hanana”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press