Sapana, Shapana, Śapana: 11 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śapana can be transliterated into English as Sapana or Shapana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarysapana (सपन).—n m (Vulgar corruption of svapna) A dream.
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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryŚapana (शपन).—
1) See शपथः, वृथा हि शपनं कुर्वन् प्रेत्य चेह च नश्यति (śapathaḥ, vṛthā hi śapanaṃ kurvan pretya ceha ca naśyati) Manusmṛti 8.111.
2) Reviling, abuse.
Derivable forms: śapanam (शपनम्).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚapana (शपन).—n.
(-naṃ) 1. An oath, confirmation of the truth by oath or ordeal. 2. Abuse, imprecation, cursing, malediction. E. śap to curse, aff. lyuṭ .
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚapana (शपन).—[śap + ana], n. 1. A curse. 2. An oath.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚapana (शपन).—[neuter] cursing.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Śapana (शपन):—[from śap] n. a curse, imprecation, [Atharva-veda]
2) [v.s. ...] reviling, abuse, [Horace H. Wilson]
3) [v.s. ...] an oath, asseveration by oath or ordeal, [ib.]
4) Sapaṇa (सपण):—[=sa-paṇa] [from sa > sa-pakṣa] mfn. accompanied with a wager, [Yājñavalkya]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚapana (शपन):—(naṃ) 1. n. Idem; abuse.
Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)Śapana (शपन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Savaṇa.
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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 dictionarySapanā (सपना) [Also spelled sapna]:—(nm) a dream; —[dekhanā] to dream; —[sā honā] to be very short-lived, to have disappeared too soon; —[honā] to have a mere mental existence; to be just an object of dream, to be beyond reach in reality; [sapane meṃ bhī nahīṃ] not even in dreams, never, under no circumstances.
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Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusŚapana (ಶಪನ):—
1) [noun] = ಶಪಥ [shapatha].
2) [noun] a scolding in a contemptuous language.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Sha, Pana, Ca.
Starts with: Capanai, Capanatan, Capanayakan, Capanayakar, Sapana-dekhnu, Sapanadoni, Sapanasa, Shapanasana, Shapanatara.
Ends with (+9): Abhisapana, Adhyardhakarshapana, Akshakshapana, Akshapana, Caturthabhaktakshapana, Chattussapana, Dasapana, Devarasapana, Dvikarshapana, Kalakshapana, Karmakshapana, Karshapana, Koshapana, Kshapana, Kutakarshapana, Lohakarshapana, Manusapana, Masapana, Mukutekarshapana, Prakshapana.
Full-text: Savana, Shapanatara, Abhisapana, Capanai, Sapna, Sapatha, Shapa, Samana, Pana.
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