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एक mfn. mfn. (√ इ, [Uṇ. iii, 43] , probably fr. a base ए; cf. Zd. ae-va; Gk. οἰ-ν-ός, οἶος; Goth. ai-n-s; also Lat. aequu-s; g. सर्वा-दि, [Pāṇ. 1-1, 27] ; See Gr. 200), one ( एकोऽपि, or एकश्-चन, with न preceding or following, no one, nobody; the words एकया न or एकान् न are used before decade numerals to lessen them by one e.g. एकान् न त्रिंशत्, twenty-nine), [RV.] &c. एव (with and without ) alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one only (frequently ifc. ; cf. धर्मै-क-रक्ष, &c.), [RV.] &c. the same, one and the same, identical, [ŚBr. v] ; KātyŚr.; [Mn.] &c. एक one of two or many ( - , - द्वितीय, the one - the other; esp. pl. एके, some, एके - अपरे some - others, &c.), [ŚBr.] ; KātyŚr.; [MBh.] ; [Hit.] &c. एक ( repeated twice, either as a compound [ cf. एकै-क] or uncompounded, may have the sense ‘one and one’, ‘one by one’ [RV. i, 20, 7; 123, 8; v, 52, 17] ; [R.] ; [BhP.] &c.) single of its kind, unique, singular, chief, pre-eminent, excellent, [Ragh.] ; [Kathās.] ; [Kum.] &c. sincere, truthful, [MW.] little, small, [L.] एक (sometimes used as an indefinite article), a, an, [R.] ; [Śak.] ; [Vet.] &c. (the fem. of before a तद्धित suffix and as first member of a compound is not एका, [Pāṇ. 6-3, 62] ) एक m. m.N. of a teacher, [Āp.] of a son of रय, [BhP.] एक n. n. unity, a unit ( ifc. ), [Hcat.]
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