search `guNa' in `Apte Dic'
meanings of "guNa" [1]
a.{a-stem}
1.of good quality
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meanings of "guNa" [2]
m.{a-stem}
1.a quality (good or bad);
2.a good quality;
3.use (with instr. usually);
4.effect;
5.a single thread or string;
6.the bow-string;
7.the string of a musical instrument;
8.a sinew;
9.a quality;
10.a quality, characteristic or property of all substances, one of the seven categories of padaarthas of the vaizeSikas (the number of these properties is 24);
11.an ingredient or constituent of nature, any one of the three properties belonging to all created things (these are sattva, rajas and tamas);
12.a wick;
13.an object of sense (these are five ruupa, rasa, gandha, sparza, and zabda);
14.repetition;
15.a secondary element;
16.excess;
17.an adjective;
18.the substitution of e, o, ar and al for i, u, R (short or long) and L, or the vowels a, e, o and ar and al;
19.(in rhet.) quality considered as an inherent property of a rasa or sentiment;
20.(in gram. and miim.) property considered as the meaning of a class of words;
21.(in politics) a proper course of action;
22.the number 'three' (derived from the three qualities);
23.the chord of an arc (in geom.);
24.an organ of sense;
25.a subordinate dish;
26.a cook;
27.an epithet of bhiima as in yudhiSThiro@pi guNapriyaH;
28.leaving;
29.a multiplier (in math.);
30.division;
31.the peculiar property of letters which are pronounced with external utterance
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