Friday, March 5, 2010

बाना بانا ♣ Eng. weed, wattle

बाना بانا ♣ Eng. weed, wattle

[bānā], m. the woof.

[◀MIA: Pa. vāna- n. ‘sewing, stuffing (of a couch)’ ◀OIA vāna- n. ‘weaving’ Nyāyam., vāṇī- f. ‘loom, weaving’ lex. <√vē ‘weave’ ◀PIE *au̯-, au̯ē- ‘to plait, weave’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. weed, wattle ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0126; (Turner, 1966) 11514, p.700; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 608; (MW, 1899) 0940, 1013; (Pokorny, 1959) 0075; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.538

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