guṇa (mn)
Meanings
- (in geom.) a sinew
- (in Śāṃkhya phil.) an ingredient or constituent of Prakṛti
- a bow-string
- a cook
- a garland
- a multiplier
- a property or characteristic of all created things
- a quality
- a secondary dish
- a single thread or strand of a cord or twine
- a subordinate part of any action
- an attribute of the 5 elements (each of which has its own peculiar quality or qualities as well as organ of sense)
- an auxiliary act
- an epithet
- an organ of sense
- attribute or property
- Bhīma-sena
- chief quality of all existing beings
- co-efficient (in alg.)
- elegance of expression
- excellence
- good quality
- merit
- peculiarity
- rope
- side-dish
- species
- string or thread
- subdivision
- the first gradation of a vowel
- the merit of composition (consistency)
- the number "three"
- the peculiar properties of the letters
- the secondary or less immediate object of an action
- the six subdivisions for a king in foreign politics
- the string of a musical instrument
- the vowels a, e and o
- virtue
Sememes
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