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अंतर
अन्तर
Hindi
Alternative forms
- अंतर (antar)
Noun
अन्तर • (antar) m (Urdu spelling انتر)
- interior, inside
- difference
- (by extension, figuratively) soul
- a secret, hidden thing
Sanskrit
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hantara-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”), an adjective formed from the adverb *h₁enter (“between”) (whence also अन्तर् (antár)). Cognates include Old Latin *interus (whence Latin interior (“inner, interior”) and intrā (“inside, within”)) and Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine, bowel”).
Adjective
अन्तर • (ántara)
- being in the interior, interior
- near, proximate, related, intimate
- lying adjacent to
- distant
- different from
- exterior
Noun
अन्तर • (ántara) n
- the interior
- a hole, opening
- the interior part of a thing, the contents
- soul, heart, supreme soul
- interval, intermediate space or time
- period
- term
- opportunity, occasion
- place
- distance, absence
- difference, remainder
- property, peculiarity
- weakness, weak side
- representation
- surety, guaranty
- respect, regard
- (at the end of a compound) different, other, another
- देशान्तरम् (deśā*ntaram) — another country
References
- Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0043