विमान

Borrowed from Sanskrit विमान (vimāna). Doublet of बेवान (bevān).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɪ.mɑːn/

विमान • (vimān) m (Urdu spelling ومان‎)

1. (formal) airplane, aircraft, airliner, jet

   वह विमान से छतरी के सहारे उतर गया।

   vah vimān se chatrī ke sahāre utar gayā.

   He got down from the airplane with the help of a parachute.

   Synonyms: वायु-यान (vāyu-yān), हवाई जहाज़ (havāī jahāz)

• विमान-पत्तन (vimān-pattan)
• विमान-परिचारिका (vimān-paricārikā)

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “विमान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “विमान”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons

Borrowed from Sanskrit विमान (vimāna). Compare with Old Marathi विमान (vimāna, “a vehicle that travels through the sky”).

विमान • (vimān) n

1. (mythology) A chariot of the gods
2. (by extension) An airplane

• Maxine Berntsen (1982-1983), “विमान”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
• James Thomas Molesworth (1857), “विमान”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press
• Shankar Gopal Tulpule and Anne Feldhau (1999), “विमान”, in A Dictionary of Old Marathi, Mumbai: Popular Prakashan

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ʋí.mɑː.n̪ɐ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ʋiˈmɑː.n̪ɐ/

वि- (vi-) +‎ मान (māna)

विमान • (ví-māna)

1. devoid of honour, disgraced (BhP.)

विमान • (ví-māna) m

1. disrespect, dishonour

विमान • (ví-māna)

1. measuring out, traversing (RV., AV., MBh.)

विमान • (ví-māna) m or n

1. a car or chariot of the gods, any mythical self-moving aerial car (sometimes serving as a seat or throne, sometimes self-moving and carrying its occupant through the air; other descriptions make the vimāna more like a house or palace, and one kind is said to be 7 stories high; that of रावण (rāvaṇa) was called पुष्पक (puṣpaka); the नौविमान (nau-vi-māna) [Ragh. XVO, 68] is thought to resemble a ship) (MBh., (Kāv. etc.)

   Synonym: पुष्पक (puṣpaka)

विमान • (vímāna) m

1. airplane, aircraft
2. any car or vehicle (especially a bier) (Rājat. VII, 446)
3. the palace of an emperor or supreme monarch (especially one with 7 stories) (MBh., Kāv. etc.)
4. a temple or shrine of a particular form (VarBṛS.)
5. a kind of tower (?) (R. V, 52, 8)
6. grove (Jātakam.)
7. ship, boat (L.)
8. horse (L.)

विमान • (ví-māna) n

1. measure (RV.)
2. extension (RV.)
3. (medicine) the science of (right) measure or proportion (e.g. of the right relation between the humours of the body, of medicines and remedies etc.) (Car.)

• → Bengali: বিমান (biman)
• → English: vimana
• → Gujarati: વિમાન (vimān)
  • Gujarati: વિમાન મથક (vimān mathak)
  • Gujarati: વિમાનટપાલ (vimānaṭpāl)
• → Kannada: ವಿಮಾನ (vimāna)
  • Kannada: ವಿಮಾನಯಾನ (vimānayāna)
• → Hindi: विमान (vimān)
  • Hindi: विमानभेदी (vimānbhedī)
  • Hindi: विमानतल (vimāntal)
• → Malayalam: വിമാനം (vimānaṃ)
• → Marathi: विमान (vimān)
• → Burmese: ဗိမာန် (bi.man)
• → Tamil: விமானம் (vimāṉam)
• → Telugu: విమానము (vimānamu)
  • Telugu: యుద్ధవిమానము (yuddhavimānamu)
  • Telugu: విమానయానము (vimānayānamu)
  • Telugu: విమానవాహకము (vimānavāhakamu)
  • Telugu: విమానాశ్రయము (vimānāśrayamu)
• → Urdu: ومان‎ (vimān)
  • Urdu: ومانتل‎ (vimāntal)

• Monier Williams (1899), “विमान”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, pages 0951, 0979, 0980.