विषाण

{ viṣāṇḥ }

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : सींग

A dictionary, Marathi and English

viṣāṇa m n S A horn. 2 A tusk or fang.

Aryabhushan School Dictionary

n m  A horn; a tusk.

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

 न. १ शिंग . २ सुळा ; सुळका ; शूलदंत . [ सं . ]

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

विषाण  m.  1. n. (for 2. See under वि-√ षो, fr. which 1. may perhaps also come; in older language also f( आ). and accord. to g. अर्धर्-चा-दि, also m.; ifc. आ or ई) a horn, the horn of any animal, [AV.] &c. &c. ( cf. खरी-, शश-व्°)
a horn (wind-instrument), [BhP.]
the tusk (of an elephant or of a boar or of गणेश), [MBh.]; [Hariv.] &c.
the claws (of a crab), [Pañcat.]
a peak, top, point, summit, [ṢaḍvBr.]; [VarBṛS.]
the horn-like tuft on शिव's head, [MBh.]
the tip of the breast, nipple, [BhP.]
-भूत   the chief or best of a class or kind ( cf.; धी-व्° = ‘acuteness of intellect, sagacity’), [MBh.]; [VarBṛS.]

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भूत

कृपाण   a sword or knife, [R.] ( v.l.)
वि-षाण  n.  2. n. (for 1. See p. 997, col. 3) discharging (a fluid), [RV. v, 44, 11.]

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वि षाण

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

विषाणः [viṣāṇḥ] णम् [ṇam] णी [ṇī]   णम् णी [विष्-बा˚ कानच्]
A horn; साहित्यसंगीतकलाविहीनः साक्षात् पशुः पृच्छविषाणहीनः [Bh.2.12;] कदाचिदपि पर्यटञ् शशविषाणमासादयेत् 2.5.
The tusk of an elephant or boar; केचिद्भिन्ना विषाणाग्रैः [Mb.6.94.35;] तप्तानामुपदधिरे विषाणभिन्नाः प्रह्लादं सुरकरिणां घनाः क्षरन्तः [Ki.7.] 13; [Śi.1.6;] [Bhāg.1.43.15.]
A horn (wind instrument).
The claws (of a crab).
A peak, top.
The nipple, (tip of the breast).
The chief or best of the kind.
A sword or kinfe.

Shabda-Sagara

विषाण   Subst.
 mfn.  ( -णः-णी-णं)
1. The horn of an animal.
2. The tusks of an elephant.
3. The tusk or fang of the boar.
 f.  ( -णी)
1. A plant, the fruit of which is compared to the horn of a ram, &c. com- monly Mesa Sringī.
2. A medicinal root: see क्षीरकाकोली.
 n.  ( -णं) [Page677-a+ 60] A sort of Costus, (C. speciosus.)
E. वि before अस् to be, चानश् aff.; the initial of the radical rejected, and स changed to ष; otherwise, वि before षण् to serve, aff. घञ्; or विष वा-कानच् .

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वि अस् चानश् स ष; वि षण् घञ्; विष वा-कानच् .