ghaná mf(A/)n. (√ han) a striker, killer, destroyer, [RV. i, 4, 8]; [iii, 49, 1]; [iv, 38, 1]; [viii, 96, 18]
compact, solid, material, hard, firm, dense, [i, 8, 3] (ghanā́ for °nám ā́), [Suśr.] &c.
coarse, gross
viscid, thick, inspissated, [Suśr.]; [Bhartṛ.]; [Kathās. xxiv, 93]
full of (in comp.), densely filled with (in comp.), [MBh. i], [xiii]; [Ragh. viii, 90]; [Ratnāv. iv, 2]
uninterrupted, [Pañcat. iii, 14, 11]
dark (cf. -śyāma), [BhP. iv, 5, 3]
deep (as sound; colour), [MBh. i, 6680]; [VarBṛS. xliii, 19]
complete, all, [Kathās. iv, 53]
auspicious, fortunate, [W.]
ghaná m. (= ϕόνος) slaying, [RV. vi, 26, 8]
an iron club, mace, weapon shaped like a hammer, [i, 33, 4]; [36, 16]; [63, 5]; [ix, 97, 16]; [AV. x, 4, 9]
any compact mass or substance (generally ifc.), [ŚBr. xiv] &c. (said of the foetus in the 2nd month, [Nir. xiv, 6]; [Laghuj. iii, 4])
ifc. mere, nothing but (e.g. vijñāna-ghaná, ‘nothing but intuition’, [ŚBr. xiv]), [MāṇḍUp. 5]; [PraśnUp. v, 5]; [BhP. viii f.] (cf. ambu-, ayo-)
a collection, multitude, mass, quantity, [W.]
vulgar people, [Subh.]
a cloud, [MBh.] &c. (ifc. f(A). , [Hariv. 2660])
talc, [L.]
the bulbous root of Cyperus Hexastachyus communis, [Suśr. vi]
a peculiar form of a temple, [Hcat. ii, 1, 389]
a particular method of reciting the [RV.] and Yajur-veda (cf. [RTL. p. 409])
the cube (of a number), solid body (in geom.), [Laghuj.]; [Sūryas.]
phlegm (kapha), [L.]
the body, [L.]
extension, diffusion, [W.]
ghaná n. any brazen or metallic instrument or plate which is struck (cymbal, bell, gong, &c.), [Hariv. 8688]
iron, [L.]
tin, [L.]
a mode of dancing (neither quick nor slow), [L.]
darkness, [L.]