tanú mf(us, U/s, vI)n. thin, slender, attenuated, emaciated, small, little, minute, delicate, fine (texture, [Ṛtus. i, 7]), [ŚBr. iii, 5, 4, 21]; [KātyŚr. viii, 5]; [MBh.] &c. (in comp. g. kaḍārādi; also = -dagdha, [Sarvad. xv, 189])
(said of a speech or hymn) accomplished (in metre), [RV. viii, 1, 18] and (acc. f. °nvám), [76, 12]
tanú m. (g. 2. lohitādi, not in [Kāś.]) N. of a Ṛṣi with a very emaciated body, [MBh. xii, 4665]
tanú (us), f. (once m., [Bhām. ii, 79]) = °nū́ (see s.v.), the body, person, self (cf. duṣ-ṭanu, priyá-), [AitBr. viii, 24, 4] (ifc.), [Mn.] (svakā t°, ‘one's own person’, [iv, 184]), [MBh.]; [Hariv.] (acc. pl. irr. °navas, [3813]) &c. (iyaṃ tanur mama, ‘this my self. i.e. I myself here’, [Ratnāv. iv, 4]; °nuṃ-√ tyaj or hā, ‘to give up one's life’, [Mn. vi, 32]; [BhP. iii]; [Kathās.])
tanú m. form or manifestation, [Śak. i, 1]
the skin, [L.]
= -gṛha, [VarBṛ.]; [Laghuj.]
[cf. τανυ-; Lat. tenuis &c.]