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sūnā

(ā), f. a daughter, [L.] (for other meanings See , p. 1242, col. 3)


sūnā́ f. (prob. fr. √ siv, ‘to sew’, and connected with sūci and sūtra; cf. sūna, p. 1240, col. 1) a woven wicker-work basket or vessel of any kind, [RV.]; [AV.]; [GṛŚrS.]


a place for slaughtering animals, slaughter-house, butchery (wrongly śūnā; cf. sūdanā), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.


the sale of flesh or meat, [MW.]


any place or utensil in a house where animals are liable to be accidentally destroyed (see pañca-sūnā)


a stick fixed to an elephant's hook, [L.]


killing, hurting, injuring, [BhP.]


imminent death, danger of life (sūnāyām api, ‘even in the last extremity’), [ib.]


the uvula or soft palate (in this and the next sense perhaps connected with śūna), [L.]


inflammation of the glands of the neck (commonly called ‘mumps’), [W.] (accord. to some also, ‘a zone, girdle’; ‘a ray’; ‘a river’).