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khāni

khan cl. 1. P. khanati ( impf. akhanat; perf. cakhāna, 3. pl. cakhnur, R. i ; Ā. cakhne, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 98 ; pr. p. Ā. khanamāna, RV. i, 179, 6 ; MBh. iii, 1897 ; Impv. khanatāt, AitBr. [ Pāṇ. vii, 1, 44 , Kāś. ]; Pot. khanyāt or khāyāt, Vop. ; Pass. khāyate [ TS. vi ; ŚBr. iii ] or khanyate, MBh. xii

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What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. كهَن

khan cl. 1. P. khanati ( impf. akhanat; perf. cakhāna, 3. pl. cakhnur, R. i ; Ā. cakhne, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 98 ; pr. p. Ā. khanamāna, RV. i, 179, 6 ; MBh. iii, 1897 ; Impv. khanatāt, AitBr. [ Pāṇ. vii, 1, 44 , Kāś. ]; Pot. khanyāt or khāyāt, Vop. ; Pass. khāyate [ TS. vi ; ŚBr. iii ] or khanyate, MBh. xii ; R. ; Pañcat. ; inf. khanitum, Pañcat. ), to dig, dig up, delve, turn up the soil, excavate, root up, RV. ; VS. ; AV. &c.; to pierce (said of an arrow), Bhartṛ. ( v.l. ) : Caus. khānayati (once khan, R. ii, 80, 12 ), to cause to dig or dig up, ŚāṅkhŚr. ; MBh. &c.: Desid. cikhaniṣati, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 42 , Kāś. : Intens. caṅkhanyate or cākhāyate, Pāṇ. vi, 4, 43 ; caṅkhanti or cākhāti, Vop.

2. كهَنِ

khani mfn. ( Uṇ. ) digging or rooting up, AV. xvi, 1, 7

3. khanī

khanī ( f. of na, q.v. )

4. khāni

khāni f. a mine, Śatr. x, 112 ( ifc. )

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.