[gɛh₍ɛ₎nā], m. an ornament.
[◀MIA: Pk. gahaṇaya- n. ‘ornament’ ◀OIA gráhaṇa- n. ‘putting on (clothes)’ MBh. <√grah ‘take’ ◀PIE *ghrebh-, gherbh- ‘to take, grab, seize, reach’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. grasp ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. grab ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0936; (Turner, 1966) 4364, p.234; (MW, 1899) 0371, 0372; (Pokorny, 1959) 0455; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 3.156, 1.505
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