Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. [ūn-hānau ac Uṇ. 3. 2] 1 Wanting, deficient, defective; kiṃcidūnamanūnardheḥ śaradāmayutaṃ yayau R. 10. 1; incomplete, insufficient.
2 Less than (in number, size or degree); ūnadvivarṣaṃ nikhanat Y. 3. 1 less than two years old; ūnaṃ vābhyadhikaṃ vāpi Y. 2. 295.
3 Fewer, smaller.
4 Weaker, inferior; ūnaṃ na sattveṣva- dhiko babādhe R. 2. 14.
5 Minus (in this sense used with numerals); [Page0345-a+ 54]...
Source entryMonier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary
mfn. (av Un2. iii, 2; ? cf. Zd. ūna), wanting, deficient, defective, short of the right quantity, less than the right number, not sufficient 221,2 37981 mfn. less (in number, size, or degree), minus, fewer, smaller, inferior AV. x, 8, 15; 44; xii, 1, 61; TS.; S3Br.; Mn.; Ragh. &c 221,2 37982 mfn. less than (with abl. e.g. lakṣād ūna, less than a Laksha lakṣa Katha1s. liii, 10; or ifc. e.g. tad-ūna, inferior to that...
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