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अन्
अन्
Sanskrit
Root
अन् • (an)
- to breathe
Derived terms
- अन (aná, “breath, respiration”)
- अनति (ánati, “he breathes”)
- अनन (ánana, “breathing, living”)
- अनिति (ániti, “he breathes”)
- अनिल (ánila, “air, wind”)
- आन (āná, “exhaling through the nose; mouth; face”)
- आनन (ānana, “mouth; face”)
References
- Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 24
- William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 3