Hindi

Noun

विमान • ‎(vimān) m ‎(Urdu spelling ومان)

1. airplane, aircraft, airliner, jet

   वह विमान से छतरी के सहारे उतर गया।

   He got down from the airplane with the help of a parachute.

Synonyms

• वायु-यान ‎(vāyu-yān)
• हवाई जहाज़ ‎(havā'ī jahāz)

Related terms

• विमान-पत्तन ‎(vimān-pattan)
• विमान-परिचारिका ‎(vimān-paricārikā)

References

• Mahendra Caturvedi (accessed 07-26-2012), “A Practical Hindi-English Dictionary”, in (Please provide the title of the work)
• Hardev Bahri (accessed 10-16-2012), “Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary”, in (Please provide the title of the work)

Marathi

Etymology

From Sanskrit विमान ‎(vimāna)

Noun

विमान • ‎(vimān) ?

1. airplane

References

• Maxine Berntsen (accessed 07-26-2012), “A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary”, in (Please provide the title of the work)

Sanskrit

Etymology 1

From the root vi-√man

Adjective

विमान • ‎(ví-māna)

1. devoid of honour, disgraced (BhP.)

Declension

Noun

विमान • ‎(ví-māna) m

1. disrespect, dishonour

Declension

Etymology 2

Adjective

विमान • ‎(ví-māna)

1. measuring out, traversing (RV., AV., MBh.)

Declension

Noun

विमान • ‎(ví-māna) n, m

1. a car or chariot of the gods, any mythical self-moving aerial car (sometimes serving as a seat or throne, sometimes self-moving and carrying its occupant through the air; other descriptions make the vimāna more like a house or palace, and one kind is said to be 7 stories high; that of रावण ‎(rāvaṇa) was called पुष्पक ‎(puṣpaka); the नौविमान ‎(nau-vi-māna) [Ragh. XVO, 68] is thought to resemble a ship) (MBh., (Kāv. etc.)

Declension

Noun

विमान • ‎(vímāna) m

1. airplane, aircraft
2. any car or vehicle (especially a bier) (Rājat. VII, 446)
3. the palace of an emperor or supreme monarch (especially one with 7 stories) (MBh., Kāv. etc.)
4. a temple or shrine of a particular form (VarBṛS.)
5. a kind of tower (?) (R. V, 52, 8)
6. grove (Jātakam.)
7. ship, boat (L.)
8. horse (L.)

Declension

Noun

विमान • ‎(ví-māna) n

1. measure (RV.)
2. extension (RV.)
3. (medicine) the science of (right) measure or proportion (e.g. of the right relation between the humours of the body, of medicines and remedies etc.) (Car.)

Declension

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, pages 0951, 0979, 0980