search `varNa' in `Apte Dic'

meanings of "varNa" [1]

m.{a-stem}

1.a colour;

2.a paint, see varN(1);

3.colour;

4.look;

5.a class of men, tribe, caste (especially applied to the four principal castes, braahmaNa, kSatriya, baizya and zuudra);

6.a class;

7.a letter;

8.fame;

9.a good quality;

10.praise;

11.dress;

12.outward appearance;

13.a cloak;

14.a covering;

15.the order or arrangement of a subject in a song;

16.the housings of an elephant;

17.a quality;

18.a religious observance;

19.an unknown quantity;

20.the number 'one';

21.application of perfumed unguents to the body;

22.gold;

23.a musical mode

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meanings of "varNa" [2]

n.{a-stem}

1.saffron;

2.a coloured unguent or perfume

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