# आणव (āṇava)

Canonical page: https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/anava

आणव (āṇava) is a Sanskrit word meaning fine or minute, anhuīna, exceeding smallness, extreme smallness, very small or fine, exceedingly small. Its 7 recorded definitions are grouped into 2 contexts, among them Noun: Smallness, Minuteness, Adjective: Minute, Fine, Small.

- **SLP1:** `ARava`  **IAST:** āṇava  **Devanagari:** आणव
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anava
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/anava/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** आनव (ānava), अनव (anava)

## Meanings by context

### Noun: Smallness, Minuteness (4 definitions)
- Exceeding smallness  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > आणव (āṇava) n. exceeding smallness, ( g. पृथ्व् - आदि (pṛthv-ādi), q.v. ) [ ID=23309 ]
- Exceeding smallness or minuteness  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > — वं (vaṃ) Exceeding smallness or minuteness. [ ID=6057 ]
- Exceeding minuteness  
  *Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > आणव (āṇava) [Printed book page 097-03 ] आणव (āṇava) n. Exceeding minuteness. [ ID=4881 ]
- 1. Extreme smallness. 2. Very small or fine.  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)*
  > आणव (āṇava) [Printed book page 0116-c ] Āṇava, am, n. exceeding smallness; ( as, ī, am ), very small, fine (?). [ ID=8290 ]

### Adjective: Minute, Fine, Small (3 definitions)
- fine or minute  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H2) [Printed book page 134,1] आणव (āṇava) mfn. ( fr. अणु (aṇu) ), fine, minute, Upaniṣad (Literary category) [ ID=23307 ]
- anhuīna  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > = आणवीन (āṇavīna), q.v., Lexicographers, esp. such as Amarasiṃha, Halāyudha, Hemacandra, etc. (Author) [ ID=23308 ]
- Exceedingly small  
  *Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > आणव (āṇava) [Printed book page 0232-a ] आणव (āṇava) a. ( वी (vī) f. ) Exceedingly small

## Sources

Definitions from Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872); Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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