तन

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀢𑀡𑀽 (taṇū), from Sanskrit तनू (tanū́), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tanúHs, from Proto-Indo-European *tenúh₂s, from *tenuh₂- (“body”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬥𐬎 (tanu).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /t̪ən/, [t̪ɐ̃n]

तन • (tan) m (Urdu spelling تن)

1. body, self

   Synonyms: शरीर (śarīr), बदन (badan), देह (deh)

   उसके तन पर गुदड़ी तक नहीं है।

   uske tan par gudṛī tak nahī̃ hai.

   He has not a rag on his body.

• तन दूरी (tan dūrī)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “तन”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “तन”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

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• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /tɐ́.nɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /t̪ɐ.n̪ɐ/

तन • (tána) stem, n

1. offspring, posterity

• Monier Williams (1899) “तन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 435.