Alternative spellings of this word include Gardan.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

garadana (गरदन).—f ( P) The neck.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

garadana (गरदन).—f The neck.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Garadāna (गरदान):—[=gara-dāna] [from gara] n. giving poison, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa vii, 5, 43.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Garadana in German

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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.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

1) Garadana (गरदन) [Also spelled gardan]:—(nf) the neck; —[uḍānā/kāṭanā] to behead, to chop off one’s head; to decollate, to cut the throat; to put to tremendous harm; —[jhukānā] to yield; to be ashamed; —[na uṭhānā] not to utter a word in protest; to endure everything; —[nāpanā] to catch hold of one’s neck; to insult; —[nīcī honā] the head to hang down through shame; —[pakaḍanā] to catch hold of the neck, to hold by the neck; to insult; —[para churī calānā/pheranā] to submit (somebody) to grave injustice, to cut the throat (of); —[para juā rakhanā] to assign a difficult job; —[para savāra honā] to have complete sway; to subjugate (somebody), to keep on pestering; —[phaṃsanā] to be embroiled in a mess; to be involved in a difficulty, to be in somebody’s grip; —[maroḍanā] to throttle; to twist or wring the neck (of); —[māranā] to behead; —[meṃ hātha denā] to hold by the neck, to humiliate.

2) Garadāna (गरदान) [Also spelled gardan]:—(nf) declension and conjugation.

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See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Gara, Dana, Tana.

Ends with: Kagaradana, Sagaradana, Saptasagaradana.

Full-text: Gadadana, Gardan.

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