मौनmauna

मौन (mauna) is a Sanskrit word meaning a descendant of Muni, a dynasty, the fifteenth day in the dark half of the month Phalguṇa, the position of a holy sage, silence, taciturnity, silence or taciturnity. Its 16 recorded definitions are grouped into 5 contexts, among them Silence / Taciturnity, Observance of Silence and Associated Terms, Dynastic Name.

Roots: चर् (car), कृ (kṛ), धा (dhā)
Etymology: E. मुनि a sage, (who practices it,) and अण् aff
Definitions: 16

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Meanings by context

Silence / Taciturnity

7 definitions

silence, taciturnity

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

Silence

— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Silence

— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Silence, taciturnity

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Silence

— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Silence

— Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

silence

— Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary

Observance of Silence and Associated Terms

3 definitions

the fifteenth day in the dark half of the month Phalguṇa

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

1. The condition of an ascetic. 2. Silence.

— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1. Silence or taciturnity. 2. The office or position of a holy sage.

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872)

Dynastic Name

2 definitions

a dynasty

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

eleven kings who ruled for three centuries

— The Purana Index

Patronymic from Muni

2 definitions

a descendant of Muni

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

descendant of Muni

— The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

State/Office of a Muni

2 definitions

the position of a holy sage

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the condition of a holy sage; silence.

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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Definitions on this page come from 12 works: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Purana Index, The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.