सेना

Sanskrit

noun
Definitions
  • an army, armament, battle-array, armed force (also personified as wife of Kārttikeya; at the end of a compound also सेन (सेन)) ( etc.)
  • missile, dart, spear (, )
  • name of Indra's wife (or his thunderbolt so personified) (, , )
  • a small army (consisting of 3 elephants, 3 chariots, 9 horse, and 15 foot) ()
  • any drilled troop or band or body of men ()
  • a kind of title or addition to the names of persons (also names of courtezans) (; compare 4-1, 152 etc.)
  • name of a courtesan (abridged from कुबेरसेना (tr=kubera-senā)) ()
  • name of the mother of शम्भव (शम्भव) (the third arhat of the present avasarpiṇī) ()

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan *sáynaH inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáynaH.

Origin

Proto-Indo-Iranian

*sáynaH

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