Pratarana, Prataraṇā, Prataraṇa: 13 definitions
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Marathi-English dictionary
prataraṇā (प्रतरणा).—f (Properly pratāraṇā) Cheating or tricking.
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pratāraṇa (प्रतारण).—n S pratāraṇā f (S) Cheating, overreaching, deceiving, tricking.
prataraṇā (प्रतरणा).—f (pratāraṇā.) Cheating or tricking.
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pratāraṇa (प्रतारण).—p pratāraṇā f Cheating, deceiving
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
Prataraṇa (प्रतरण).—Crossing, going over.
Derivable forms: prataraṇam (प्रतरणम्).
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Pratāraṇa (प्रतारण).—
1) Carrying over.
2) Deceiving, cheating, deception.
-ṇā Fraud, deceit, knavery, trickery, roguery, deception, hypocrisy; यदीच्छसि वशीकर्तुं जगदेकेन कर्मणा । उपास्यतां कलौ कल्पलतादेवी प्रतारणा (yadīcchasi vaśīkartuṃ jagadekena karmaṇā | upāsyatāṃ kalau kalpalatādevī pratāraṇā) ||; प्रतारणासमर्थस्य विद्यया किं प्रयोजनम् (pratāraṇāsamarthasya vidyayā kiṃ prayojanam) Udb.
Derivable forms: pratāraṇam (प्रतारणम्).
Pratāraṇa (प्रतारण).—nf.
(-ṇaṃ-ṇā) 1. Fraud, cheating, deceit, over-reaching, trick. 2. Carrying over. E. pra before, tṝ to cross, aff. lyuṭ .
Prataraṇa (प्रतरण).—i. e. pra-tṛ + ana, n. Crossing over, Mahābhārata 4, 199.
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Pratāraṇa (प्रतारण).—i. e. pra-tṛ10 + ana, n. 1. Crossing over, [Rāmāyaṇa] 1, 3, 28 Gorr. 2. and f. ṇā, Cheating, fraud.
Prataraṇa (प्रतरण).—[feminine] ī carrying on, furthering, increasing; [neuter] crossing over, navigation.
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Pratāraṇa (प्रतारण).—[neuter] = pratāra.
1) Prataraṇa (प्रतरण):—[=pra-taraṇa] [from pra-tṝ] mf(ī)n. furthering, promoting, increasing (with āyuṣaḥ, ‘prolonging life’), [Ṛg-veda; Atharva-veda; Vājasaneyi-saṃhitā; Pāraskara-gṛhya-sūtra]
2) [v.s. ...] n. going to sea, passing over, crossing, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc. tarītṛ ([Ṛg-veda]),
3) Pratāraṇa (प्रतारण):—[=pra-tāraṇa] [from pra-tṝ] n. ([from] [Causal]) ferrying over, carrying across, [Śārṅgadhara-paddhati]
4) [v.s. ...] passing over, crossing (mc. for taraṇa), [Rāmāyaṇa; Rājataraṅgiṇī]
5) [v.s. ...] deceiving, cheating (also f(ā). ), [Śārṅgadhara-paddhati; cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
Pratāraṇa (प्रतारण):—[pra-tāraṇa] (ṇaṃ-ṇā) 1. f. n. Fraud, deceit.
Prataraṇa (प्रतरण):—(wie eben)
1) adj. f. ī vorwärtsbringend, weitertragend; fördernd, helfend, mehrend [Ṛgveda 1, 91, 19. 2, 1, 12.] vāstoṣpate pra.araṇo na edhi gaya.phāno.gobhi.aśvebhirindo [7, 54, 2.] tāṃ (dhuraṃ) vahāmi pra.araṇīmava.yuvam [5, 46, 1.] Wagen [6, 47, 26.] [Vālakhilya 1, 4.] [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā 16, 42.] [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 12, 2, 49.] pra.araṇī gṛ.āṇām [14, 2, 26.] vasūnām [Pāraskara’s Gṛhyasūtrāṇi 3, 4.] āyuṣo si pra.araṇam lebenverlängernd [Atharvavedasaṃhitā 19, 44, 1.] Vgl. āyuṣprataraṇa . —
2) n. das Zuschiffegehen, Hinüberschiffen, Uebersetzen, Beschiffen [Weber’s Indische Studien 2, 41.] [Suśruta 1, 98, 11. 2, 145, 9.] [GAUḌAP.] zu [SĀṂKHYAK. 1.] [Scholiast] zu [Raghuvaṃśa 15, 101.] jala [Mahābhārata 4, 199.] mahānadī [Spr. 2147.] lokānām (das Versmaass erfordert, wie schon [BENFEY] bemerkt hat, pratā, aber auch der Sinn, da das Wort hier zugleich das Betrügen, Anführen bedeutet) [Benfey’ Chrestomathie aus Sanskritwerken 94,] [Śloka 10.]
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Pratāraṇa (प्रतारण):—(wie eben) n.
1) = prataraṇa (dem Versmaass zu Liebe) das Hinüberfahren über (gen.): samudrasya [Rāmāyaṇa Gorresio 1, 3, 28.] setunā tena tatraicchatkartuṃ so mbhaḥpratāraṇam [Rājataraṅgiṇī 1, 157. 4, 191.] —
2) das Hintergehen, Betrügen, Betrug [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 379.] [Halāyudha 4, 63.] ṇā f. dass.: yadīcchasi vaśīkartuṃ jagadekena karmaṇā . upāsyatāṃ kalau kalpalatādevī pratāraṇā .. [UDBHAṬA im Śabdakalpadruma][?; vgl. Spr. 2373.] — Vgl. u. prataraṇa .
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Prataraṇa (प्रतरण):—
2) [Z. 4. fgg.] streiche lokānām bis zum Schluss des Artikels und vgl. [Spr. 4483.]
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Pratāraṇa (प्रतारण):—
1) und zugleich
2) [Spr. 4483.] —
2) [Z. 3] trenne kalpalatā devī und vgl. [Spr. 4819.]
Prataraṇa (प्रतरण):——
1) Adj. (f. ī) — a) vorwärts bringend , weitertragend. — b) fördernd , helfend , mehrend. āyuṣaḥ das Leben verlängernd. —
2) n. das Zuschiffegehen , Hinüberschiffen , Uebersetzen , Beschiffen.
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Pratāraṇa (प्रतारण):——
1) n. — a) das Hinüberführen (über ein Wasser) [Indische sprüche 3839.] — b) metrisch = prataraṇa das Hinüberfahren über ) Gen. oder im Comp. vorangehend). — c) das Hintergehen , Betrügen [Indische sprüche 3839.] —
2) f. ā Betrug.
Prataraṇa (प्रतरण) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Payaraṇa, Payāraṇa.
Pratāraṇā (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 假許 [jiǎ xǔ]: “provisionally acknowledged”.
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Pratāraṇa (ಪ್ರತಾರಣ):—
1) [noun] an act or instance of cheating; a deceiving.
2) [noun] that which (as a thing, condition, situation etc.) cheats or causes illusion.
3) [noun] the act, an instance of coneying people, things, etc. across a river; a ferrying.
4) [noun] a helping (another) to tide over a period or situation of difficulty.
5) [noun] a crossing or passing over (a waterbody, difficult situation, etc.).
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
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Full-text: Ayutpratarana, Payarana, Prataranem, Pratarayitar, Jia xu, Prarocana, Prapanca.
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