Ambiguity: Although Jaan has separate glossary definitions below, it also represents an alternative spelling of the word Jana.

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Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Jaan in Hindi refers in English to:—(nf) life, animation; stamina, vitality; energy; essence; spirit; sweetheart; darling; -[e-mana] darling!, sweetheart!; -[jokhima] risk of life; ~[dara] having vitality; lively, animate; -[bima] lifeinsurance; ~[leva] deadly; mortal; -[va-mala] life and property/belongings; —[ana] to be revived; to have a lease of life; —[aphata mem hona] to be at a dead lift; —[amkhom mem a jana] to be on the verge of death;—[othom para ana] to have life hanging by a feeble thread; to be in a mortal agony; —[ka gahaka/grahaka] bent on causing one’s end; —[ka nukasana] loss of life; —[ki amana] guarantee of life; —[ki khaira] surety of life; —[ki khaira manana] to endeavour or pray for the safety of life; —[ki padana] to be worried about the security of one’s life; —[ki baji lagana] ([|]) would give my ears, to stake one’s life, to be ready to make any sacrifice; —[ke lale padana] to be under the shadow of death, to be in an irretrievably risky position; —[khapana] to put in arduous work, to labour hard; —[khana] to pester constantly; —[curana] see [ji curana; —chidakana] to be deeply in love (with), to be ready to stake life for; —[chudana] to get rid of, to skulk from; —[chutana] to get rid of; —[dena] to sacrifice; to be in passionate love (with); —[nikalana] to become lifeless, to be in great agony; —[para ana; —para a banana] to be exposed to imminent danger, to be exposed to imminent risk of life; —[para khelana] to stake one’s life, to put one’s life in peril; —[para naubata ana] see —[para a banana; —bacana] to save the life of; to shirk/skulk/funk; to save one’s carcass; —[baci lakhom pae] security of life represents the greatest achievement; Dutch comfort; —[bhari hona] to be weary of life, to feel life to be a burden; —[mutthi mem hona] to have a person cold, to have him at one’s mercy; —[mem jana ana] to feel relieved, to feel comforted; —[ladana] to exert to the utmost, to strain every nerve; —[lena] to kill, to inflict grave suffering; to put to arduous labour; —[sukhana] to be scared out of wits; to be stunned; —[se jana] to pass away; to lose life; —[se bejara hona] to be fed up of life; —[se marana] to kill; —[se mara dalana] to kill, to deprive of life; —[se hatha dho baithana] to lose one’s life, to have to abandon one’s life; —[hatheli para lie phirana] to be ever ready to stake one’s life; —[hai to jahana hai] no life, no pleasure; the world lives as long as you live..—jaan (जान) is alternatively transliterated as Jāna.

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Starts with: Jaana, Jaana palasheru, Jaanchapadtal, Jaang, Jaanghia, Jaanigida, Jaanjana, Jaanto, Jaanupolaari, Jamghe, Janaki, Janattanam, Janchinu, Jani, Jankalam, Jankiri, Janu.

Ends with: Ajaan, Chittijaan, Haramjan, Kulapjan, Rajaan, Ranjan, Selamaranjaan, Surunjaan.

Full-text: Jana.

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Triveni Journal

Harijans of Mehesana < [July 1960]

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