हन्

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɦɐ́n/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ɦɐn̪/

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǰʰā́, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰḗn, from the root *gʷʰen- (“to strike, slay”).

हन् • (hán) stem

1. (at the end of a compound) killing, striking, slaying

• तमोहन् (tamohán)

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǰʰan-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, hit, kill”).

हन् • (han)

2. to strike, beat
3. to kill, slay
4. to put to death, execute

Primary Verbal Forms

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Prefixed Root Forms

• Monier Williams (1899) “हन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1287/2.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 202
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 800-1