अग्रहायण

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अग्रहायण (agrahāyaṇa), a compound of अग्र (agra, "beginning, foremost") +‎ हायण (hāyaṇa, "year"), literally “commencement of the year”.

Pronunciation

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /əɡ.ɾə.ɦɑː.jəɳ/, [ɐɡ.ɾɐ.ɦäː.jɐ̃ɳ]

Noun

अग्रहायण • (agrahāyaṇ) m

Agrahayana (ninth month of the Hindu lunar calendar)
Synonyms: मार्गशीर्ष (mārgśīrṣ), अगहन (aghan)

Declension

Declension of अग्रहायण (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	अग्रहायण agrahāyaṇ	अग्रहायण agrahāyaṇ
oblique	अग्रहायण agrahāyaṇ	अग्रहायणों agrahāyaṇõ
vocative	अग्रहायण agrahāyaṇ	अग्रहायणो agrahāyaṇo

Related terms

(lunar months) चैत्र (caitra), वैशाख (vaiśākh), ज्येष्ठ (jyeṣṭh), आषाढ़ (āṣāṛh) / असाढ़ (asāṛh), श्रावण (śrāvaṇ), भाद्र (bhādra), आश्विन (āśvin), कार्तिक (kārtik), मार्गशीर्ष (mārgaśīrṣ) / अग्रहायण (agrahāyaṇ), पौष (pauṣ), माघ (māgh), फाल्गुन (phālgun) ^{(Category: hi:Hindu lunar calendar months)}

References

Monier Williams (1899), “अग्रहायण”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 6, 1170.

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