सिरहाना سِرہانا ♣ Eng. horn + oakum + do

सिरहाना سِرہانا ♣ Eng. horn + oakum + do

[sirhānā], m. the head of a bed.

[◀MIA ⋯ ◀OIA *śiraādhāna- ʻresting-place for the headʼ <+③śíras- n. ‘head’ RV. (♣Eng. horn) <ādhā́na- n. ʻthe place in which anything restsʼ ŚBr. <ā-√dhā ‘to place on, put down, deposit, put’ <+②ā- ‘near to, towards’ (♣Eng. oakum) <√dhā ‘place’ ◀PIE *dhē- ‘to put, place, set’] ♣[=PIE▶⋯▶Eng. do, deed, doom, deem ] ♣[=PIE▶⋯→Eng. fact, factor, factory, fashion, face, office, theme ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0658; (Turner, 1966) 12449, 1163, p.387, ③ 12452; (MW, 1899) 0513, ② 0126, ③ 1072; (Pokorny, 1959) 0235, ② 0280, ③ 0574; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 1.783, ② 1.157, ③ 2.638