सेना

Borrowed from Sanskrit सेना (sénā).

IPA^(key): /seː.nɑː/

सेना • (senā) f (Urdu spelling سینا‎)

1. army, military, body of troops

   शत्रु ने दोनों सेनाओं को हरा दिया।

   śatru ne donõ senāon ko harā diyā.

   The enemy defeated both the armies.

   Synonym: फ़ौज (fauj)

• फ़ौज (fauj)

• सेनापति (senāpti)
• सैनिक (sainik)

• Bahri, Hardev (1989), “सेना”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons

Borrowed from Sanskrit सेना (sénā).

सेना • (senā) f

1. army

सेना ?

1. Devanagari script form of senā

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *sáynaH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáynaH. Cognate with Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁‎ (haēnā, “hostile army”), Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎴𐎠 (hainā, “hostile army”).

According to native grammarians, the sense "missile" is from the root सि (√si, “to hurl, cast”). Compare सायक (sā́yaka).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /s̪ɐ́j.n̪ɑː/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈs̪eː.n̪ɑː/

सेना • (sénā) f (Vedic sáinā)

1. an army, armament, battle-array, armed force (also personified as wife of Kārttikeya; at the end of a compound also सेन (sena)) (RV. etc.)
2. missile, dart, spear (RV., AV.)
3. name of Indra's wife (or his thunderbolt so personified) (TS., AitBr., Vait.)
4. a small army (consisting of 3 elephants, 3 chariots, 9 horse, and 15 foot) (L.)
5. any drilled troop or band or body of men (Bālar.)
6. a kind of title or addition to the names of persons (also names of courtezans) (Sāh.; compare Pāṇ. 4-1, 152 etc.)
7. name of a courtezan (abridged from कुबेरसेना (kubera-senā)) (HPariś.)
8. name of the mother of शम्भव (śambhava) (the third arhat of the present avasarpiṇī) (L.)

• Monier Williams (1899), “सेना”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 1246.