Din, Diṅ: 3 definitions

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Din means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Hindi, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Din in Nigeria is the name of a plant defined with Monodora myristica in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Monodora myristica Blanco (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Fitoterapia. (2003)
· Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles (1911)
· Flora de Filipinas, ed. 2 (1845)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2002)
· Journal of Pharmaceutical and Allied Sciences (2004)
· Species Plantarum (1753)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Sanskrit dictionary

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

Diṅ (दिङ्):—[from diś] in [compound] for 2. diś.

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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

1) Diṅ (दिङ्):——an allomorph of [dik; ~nāga] see [diggaja] (in [dig]); ~[nātha] see [dikpāla] (in [dik]); ~[maṃḍala] see [dikcakra] (in [dik); ~mātra] mere indication; ~[mūḍha] see [digbhrāṃta] (in [dig]); ~[moha] see [digbhrama] (in [dig]).

2) Din in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) a day (comprised of twenty-four hours from sunrise to sunrise); a day (extending from sunrise to sunset), day-time; time(s); ~[kara/mani] the sun; —[dasha] (adverisity or favourableness of) times; •[kharaba hona] to be under a cloud, to fall on bad days; —[dina/—ba-dina] day by day, from day to day, daily, with the passage of time; ~[mana] duration of the day; time interval between sunrise and sunset; —[rata/raina] day and night, always, all the time; ~[shesha] evening; [dinamta] the close of the day, sunset; [dinamdha] day-blind; •[ta] dayblindness; [dinagama] day-break, morning; [dinarambha] day-break, beginning of the day; —[katana] to be marking time, to be dragging out one’s days; to be passing a life of pain and sorrow; —[katana] to drag out one’s days, to maintain oneself somehow; to survive hardship; —[ko tare dikhana, —ko tare najara ana] to have the stars dance before one’s eyes (by a blow etc.); to be thoroughly beaten up; —[ko tare dikhana] to make stars dance before one’s eyes (by a blow etc.); to beat up thoroughly; to put in a very tight corner; —[ko dina rata ko rata na samajhana] to be completely lost in work; to take no notice of the passage of time; —[ko para kahana] to reverse the truth; —[gamvana] to waste time, to while away time; —[ginana] to pass uneventful days, to keep on waiting from day to day; —[cadhana] the day to be far advanced, the sun to have gone up in the sky; to pass beyond the time (of menstruation); —[cadhe] late in the morning, when the day is far advanced; —[chipana] the sun to set; —[dhalana] the day to come to a close; the sun to start declining; —[dhale] at eventide, late in the afternoon; —[dahade] in broad daylight; —[duna rata cauguna badhana] to grow by leaps and bounds; —[dharana] to appoint a day (for some auspicious ceremony etc.); —[pahada hona] the time to hang heavy; —[pure karana] to mark time; to pass one’s days somehow; —[pure hona] to be gone full time; to have completed the period of gestation; —[phirana/bahurana] the times to take a favourable turn, prosperous phase of life to commence; -[bhara] all day, through out the day; —[bhari hona] see —[pahada hona; —lagana] to give oneself airs; to become vain; —[lada jana] (one’s) heydays to be gone/past; —[se] while yet day, during the daytime; [dinom ka phera] run of (good) luck to be changed..—din (दिन) is alternatively transliterated as Dina.

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