Anuman, Aṉumaṉ, Aṉumāṉ: 6 definitions

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Anuman (अनुमन्).—4 A.

1) To agree or consent to, comply with, approve, sanction, grant; to permit, allow; किं महार्ह- शयनोपेते न वासमनुमन्यसे (kiṃ mahārha- śayanopete na vāsamanumanyase) Rām.5.24.2. तत्र नाहमनुमन्तुमुत्सहे मोघवृत्ति कलभस्य चेष्टितम् (tatra nāhamanumantumutsahe moghavṛtti kalabhasya ceṣṭitam) R.11.39; राजन्यान् स्वपुरनिवृत्तयेऽनुमेने (rājanyān svapuranivṛttaye'numene) R.4.87; कैलासनाथोद्वहनाय पुष्पकमन्वमंस्त (kailāsanāthodvahanāya puṣpakamanvamaṃsta) 14.2; शुश्रूषमाणां गिरिशोनुमेने (śuśrūṣamāṇāṃ giriśonumene) Kumārasambhava 1.59,5.68; कृताभिमर्षामनुमन्यमानः सुताम् (kṛtābhimarṣāmanumanyamānaḥ sutām) Ś 5.2; इमां स्वसारं च यवीयसीं मे कुमुद्वतीं नार्हसि नानुमन्तुम् (imāṃ svasāraṃ ca yavīyasīṃ me kumudvatīṃ nārhasi nānumantum) R. 16.85 be pleased not to reject or refuse; अविनयमनुमन्तुं नोत्सहे दुर्जनानाम् (avinayamanumantuṃ notsahe durjanānām) Bhartṛhari 3.22.

2) To follow, have recourse to; धर्मार्थावभिसन्त्यज्य संरभं योनुमन्यते (dharmārthāvabhisantyajya saṃrabhaṃ yonumanyate) Mb. -Caus.

1) To ask for leave or permission; ask the consent of; अनुमान्यतां महाराजः (anumānyatāṃ mahārājaḥ) V.2 ask for leave to go; take counsel with; भूयोऽपि सखीजनमनुमानयिष्यामि (bhūyo'pi sakhījanamanumānayiṣyāmi) Ś.3.

2) To ask for, request or beg; अन्नमादाय तृप्ताः स्थ शेषं चैवानुमान्य च (annamādāya tṛptāḥ stha śeṣaṃ caivānumānya ca) (vikirat) Y.1. 241.

3) To honour.

4) To put to account.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anuman (अनुमन्).—assent, approve, like; acknowledge as (2 [accusative]); grant, impart; allow, permit; indulge, forgive; [with] na have no patience with, dislike. [Causative] ask ([accusative]) for permission, take leave of ([accusative]), beg for ([accusative]); honour, regard, consider.

Anuman is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms anu and man (मन्).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Anuman (अनुमन्):—[=anu-√man] to approve, assent to, permit, grant:—[Causal] [Parasmaipada] -mānayati, to ask for permission or leave, ask for ([accusative]), [Yājñavalkya];

—to honour.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Anuman (अनुमन्) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Aṇumaṇṇa, Aṇumanna.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Anuman in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) guess, estimate, surmise; supposition; inference; ~[ta]: approximately, about..—anuman (अनुमान) is alternatively transliterated as Anumāna.

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Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Aṉumaṉ (அனுமன்) noun < Hanu-mān. Nom. singular of Hanumat. Hanumāṉ; அனுமான். [anuman.] (உத்தரரா. அனுமப். [utharara. anumap.] 34.)

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Aṉumāṉ (அனுமான்) noun < Hanu-mān. Hanumāṇ, the monkey god, who greatly aided Rāma in his war with Rāvaṇa; ஆஞ்சனேயன். [anchaneyan.]

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Aṉumāṉ (அனுமான்) noun probably from Hanumān. A treatise on architecture; ஒரு சிற்பநூல். [oru sirpanul.]

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

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